The grain growers' guide (1910-04-20)

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During the past four months thirty-two new Associa-
tions have been organized in Manitoba. There
never was a time of such progress in the

history of this Giant Young Organization.

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Number 38

Volume II. : CONTENTS

EDITORIAL ‘
Power to our Arm Oe ee ee
Kill the Retailers’ Trust = - - - - - - - - Be
Democratic Principles Ignored - - ries - - - 6 |
Hudson Bay Railway Promises - - - - - - - 6. |

SPECIAL {ARTICLES
It will Stop the Spoils System in Canada, by E."H.S. - - - 7
What the’Grair, Growers have done for you, by F. W. Green - 8
World’s Greatest Convention of Farmers - - - - «15
Public Ownership in New Zealand — - - - - - - 5
Where the ‘World Grows its Wheat - - - - - - +10
Girl Graduates in Agriculture - - - - - - - a
Capital and the Farmer - - - - - - - bs
MAIL BAG |
A Farmer’s Party Needless, by Geo. Langley - - - - 3.
Why Government Elevators Will Pay, by W.D. Lamb - . — id
Suggests Important Change in Grain Act, by A. Nicholson - - i
: “BUT CROWN ‘R ee Another Pioneer Talks, by Henry Deby ee Ree ee
a AND EQUITY SHALL USHER IN DEPARTMENTS
FOR THOSE WHO. BUILD Saskatchewan Section (ThejCrux of the Elevator Problem) - + 20-21

Manitoba Section (Thirty-two New Associatio’s in Four Months) 24-25
Alt -rta: Section (Private versus Government Control of Chilled

Meat Trade) - - = - - - oe - 16-17
Around the Fireside (Music on the Farm) - - - - 28-29

4 AND THOSE WHO SPIN 3
fs] AND THOSE THE GRAIN WHO GARNERIN|

f| A BRIGHTER DAY”.

nL Ee eo ee Book Review (The Twentieth Century etheneine) . - “ 22
‘News ofthe World. = = =. es
Sunshine Guild - - - - ‘ : - : j f 27
“Grain, Live Stock and Produce Market - - - - => 333d
The Publie i aD 14 Press Lid. -

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A. H. IRELAND, Superintendent of Branches

BRANCHES IN EVERY PROVINCE CF CANADA AND IN THE
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Accounts may be opened at any branch of the Bank and deposits made
or withdrawn by mail. Every attcntion is paid to out-of-town accounts.

A SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT WILL BE FOUND AT THE BRANCHES
OF THE BANK IN CANADA

$656,000 Subscribed Capital $656,000

Cash Deposits with Three Provincial Governments

HAIL INSURANCE

it Is Every Man's Privilege to carry his own risk and save the insur-
ance premium, but why pay a premium and still carry the risk,?

We Offer insurance that has been on trial for TEN YEARS in Manitoba

and Saskatchewan and it shows an unbroken record of loss claims PAID IN
FULL, to which thousands of satisfied insurers will bear witness,

Why Experiment with something that is on record as having failed when-
ever put to the test of a bad hail season, or with the NEW and UNTRIED
METHODS of Companies having little or no knowledge of Hail Insurance.

OURS is not cheap insurance, but an article that CAN BE DEPENDED
UPON, and the price is reasonable.

THE CENTRAL CANADA INSURANCE CO. ~ Brandon, Man.
THE SASKATCHEWAN INSURANCE CO. “ Regina, Sask.
THE ALBERTA-CANADIAN INSURANCE CO., Edmonton, Alta.

INSURANCE AGENCIES LIMITED

GENERAL AGENTS be

LOCAL AGENTS in all cistricts

Will be pleased to quote rates and furnish other information

WINNIPEG, BRANDON, REGINA

Money to Loan i" Fire Insurance
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April 20th, 1910

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Steel Shoes are made at Toronto, Can-
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HAVE plans made to develop The Guide into a journal which
will be to the farmers of the west the most complete and valuable
on the continent. At the outset we broke new ground and began
‘to show our readers how they were being fooled and robbed by
special interests. This we will continue to do. We have

been publishing the best collection of farmers’ letters to be seen in the
west. Our provincial departments have recorded the growth and activity
of the farmers’ associations in the various provinces. Our market reports are
the only ones of their kind that the western farmer ever sees. Our other depart-
ments have been improving. ' We have in mind still greater improvements that
will mean a great deal to our readers. All these improvements cost a great deal
of money and the paper will be improved as we receive support. Another very
important part of The Guide is the advertising pages. These pages contain
announcements of business firms who want to sell to the farmers of the west.
Every farmer should read the ads. in his paper. Gladstone once said that it was
a liberal education to study the advertising pages of an American magazine.
If it was profitable for an empire builder, how much more valuable is it for the
farmer who buys through these advertisements? We want our readers to get
in touch with the dealers through The Guide. It will help us all. If you don’t
see what you want in The Guide ads. let us know. Our aim is to have advertised
in The Guide everything the farmer wants to buy. We can do this if our readers
patronize the firms that advertise with us. That will help us to make The Guide
a better paper, and soon the farmers of the west will have the satisfaction of
knowing that they own and control the finest farmers’ paper in Canada.

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POWER TO OUR ARM

On another page of this issue of Tur Guipr
will be seen a resolution passed unanimously
by the executive of the Manitoba Grain
Growers Association repudiating the charges
of partisanship made against Tur Guinn.
We are glad to publish this resolution, though
we knew before that the executive was com-
posed. of fair-minded men who would support
a fearless and independent paper such as Tur
GuipE has always been. Of course, we knew
that our opponents, who are the opponents
of the farmers interests, would endeavor in
every way to discredit Tur Guing. But we
will continue upon our course, and backed by
the independent farmers. of the west we do
not fear any efforts that may be made by their
enemies to discredit both the farmers and
Tue Guipr. Independent we have been
and: will continue to be.

20th. 1910

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KILL THE RETAILERS’ TRUST

It is up to the members of the House of
Commons to keep their eyes upon the bill
which has just passed the senate to incorporate
the Retail Merchants’ Association. This bill
will be before the House of Commons at once
and the merchants are lobbying in earnest to
have-it become law. Once they have it passed
they will be able to put the screws upon the
producers and consumers harder than ever.
It was owing to the lobbying of the Retail
Merchants that the co-cperaticn kill was
killed. They saw that the co-operaticn bill,
if it became law, would give the consumers an
opportunity to do their own business if the
merchants. did not give them a square deal.
Now, after having the consumers turned down
they want to form a trust that will levy still
heavier toll from the men who support them.
The consumers keep the merchants alive and
have no objection to paying them a legitimate
profit on their business, but. they do object to
placing themselves at the mercy of any merch-
ants. In the United States the Retail Merchants
have got such a grip on the: consumers that
they are now one of the strongest combines
in the Republic—a land of great combines.
Are we to have the same thing in Canada?
We certainly will if the members of the House
of Commons betray their constituents and give
the merchants. the power to form a combine.
We:hope the. members will do their duty and
relegate the retail merchants’ bill to-the waste
paper basket under the committee table.

THE GRAIN GROWERS”.GUIDE

TO REGULATE THE COMBINES »
There is a bill now before the House of
Commons which provides machinery whereby

combines, trusts and mergers which unduly

enhance the price of any commodity may be
brought to terms. The bill is fathered by
Hon. MacKenzie King and is backed by the
government. The bill aims at regulating the
combines through moral influence by means
of publicity, but it provides for criminal pro-
ceedings and heavy penalties in case other
means fail. Under the provisions of this bill
the people of Canada can have a combine
Investigated without bearing all the cost
themselves as is the case under the present
farcical law in force. Under the new bill;
when any producers believe there is a combine
they can go before a judge of high court and
make out a prima facie case, and after that
the government will assume the cost and the
investigation. This puts the machinery of the
law within reach of the farmers. Take the
case of the cement merger. A few farmers can
go before a judge and show that the prices
of that commodity have been jumped beyond
all reason since the formation of- the trust.
The government will then step in and order an
investigation. This investigation will be con-
ducted by a board of three. The complainants
will name one member, the trust or merger will
name one member, and these two will choose
the chairman. If they fail to agree the govern-
ment will name the chairman, who must be a
judge of high court. This board will have all
the powers of a court and will summon wit-
nesses and investigate the matter thoroughly.
Care will be taken that full publicity is given
to all the facts and it is hoped that the publicity
will have a. good: effect upon the trusts. In
case the board finds that a combine does really
exist and that the price of cement is unduly
enhanced the combine will be given a certain
time in which to reduce the price to the figure
named by the board. If this is not done the
government will then proceed against the men
who control the trust and they can be severely
punished. The bill also gives the government
power to reduce the tariff, if necessary, upon
any commodity, in order to bring the price
down to the proper level.

There can be no doubt but that this new law
will assist in the work of regulating the trusts
and securing a square deal for the people of
Canada. It is legislation along the right line.
It is time that something was done to protect
the farmers of Canada from the rapacity
of the corporations.

There is something which the government
is overlooking in this matter. When there is
grievance to be remedied the ordinary common
sense way of proceeding is to remove the cause.
The cause’ of the combines is the protection
afforded to them by. the tariff. If the govern-
ment wanted to settle the question as to
whether there was a combine the quickest
way to find out would be to reduce the tariff
on cement. If the tariff was taken off of ce-
ment the price would come down at once.
However, the government has to be. careful
in handling their friends, the corporations,
so it is. useless to expect too much at once.
The Canadian Council of Agriculture will be
among the first to invoke the aid of the new
law. They will soon set the government
to work to see if there is not a combine in con-
trol of the wire fence, cement and cotton in-
dustries. We only hope the government will
not be forced by the corporations to give up
the.idea of passing this bill. Let the good work
proceed, but we maintain that to reduce the
tariff would be the quickest and surest method
of handling the combines.

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WAITING FOR THE COMMISSION

We have been waiting for the appointment
of the Manitoba elevator commission. If
the new act is to aid the farmers towards
securing relief from the exactions of the Eleva-
tor Combine during. the coming grain: season,
there will have to be a lot of work done first.

_a real democratic government.

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The Grain Growers’ Elevator Committee have >’

submitted four names to the government
and we believe they named three men as a
first choice who can make the Elevator Bill
the most successful possible under the cir-
cumstances. We do not want to urge undue
haste upon the government of Manitoba,
but we think they have had plenty of time
to appoint the elevator commission. | As
soon as the commission is named, if it is com-
posed of men suitable to the Grain Growers,
and we have the assurance of the government
that it will be, the farmers will be anxious
to see Manitoba government elevators all
over the province. Under the competent, im-
partial commission which the government
will appoint, the farmers will have the assur-
ance that the full powers of the new law will
be put into motion at once to have the elevator
system in Manitoba made over in the interest

of the farmers of the province. We hope

before another issue of THe GurpE goes to
the country that we shall have the pleasure
of announcing the names of a satisfactory
elevator commission that will take hold of
the new act and give to the farmers the best
it will provide.

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SOMETHING TO THINK OVER

The season of the year has now arrived when
the farmers will be too busy in the fields to
give much time and attention to the work
of the local branch associations of which they
are members. However, working in the field
does not require generally that the mind shall
be actively engaged on the same work that is
being done by the hands. As the farmers are
driving over their fields, putting them into

‘crop and later barvesting them, their minds

will be free to take up a great many subjects
of interest. Among the subjects that should
receive most careful attention, is that of the
function of the local branch associations. -
The three western provinces are now organized.
into local branches on a scale which has never
before been approached in Canada. Each

one of these branches. should be the centre

of thought, intelligence, activity and progress
for its community. Though it may be called
by any name, the name does not limit’ the
scope for activity. Through their local branch
associations the farmers of Western Canada
have an opportunity to revolutionize the civili-
zation of the west. If the local branches do
their duty the next ten years will see such
changes in the three western provinces as
would not have been deemed possible five
years.ago; even by the most advanced thinkers.
During the summer is the time to outline
schemes for fulfilment during the winter.
It will be but a few months before harvest is.
done and leisure time will come again. Plans
should be made which will insure the perman-
ency of each local branch association. If
the organization is to be of value to the farmers
of the community it must be permanent.
The work of the association should be such
that the youngest: members could look ahead
to the future and have some incentive to put
their shoulders to the wheel. The educational
work that could be done in the local branches
is without limit. It should be a training
school to fit the farmer and his son, and his
wife and his daughters, to play their parts
in the rearing of a high standard of civilization.
It would be well to have some definite course
outlined for study and discussion during: the
winter months. Haphazard methods seldom
produce satisfactory results. mee

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DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES IGNORED

The true principles of democracy are not
sufficiently understood, nor are they as clearly
adhered to in Canada, as they should be under
In Canada, we
are inclined to boast at times that we have
the most democratic form of government in
the world. We elect our representatives in

our’.various houses of parliament, and. from

these representatives the government, or cabi-.

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net ministers are chosen. These ministers
are responsible to the people—that is, they are
supposed tobe. In this way we have respon-
sible government. As a matter of fact, how-
ever, our system of government places the men
in authority too far away from the people.
Our governments are day by day becoming
more of the opinion that they are the rulers
of the people rather than their servants. This
idea, which prevails to too great an extent
is due largely to the attitude which farmers take
towards governments. It is also due to the
fact that a great percentage of the tax payers
and electors of Canada do not consider very
carefully the exact relation existing between
governments and the people.

While we have a good system of government
in Canada in many ways, yet it can be greatly
improved upon. Our governments are no
better or worse than the electors make them.
If we place a government in power and leave
it there with undisputed control for a number
of years, the government soon begins to con-
sider that it is the dictator of the people who
elected it. When a government gets to this
position it is inclined to regard rather lightly
the wishes of the people. Thus it is that
great corporations gain their control over
governments. Corporations have no votes,
but the men who control them also control
a great deal of money and influence. Thus the
further the government gets away from the
people the nearer it gets to the corporations.
It is largely the same with every government
in Canada. The corporations are organized
and know how to go after what they want.
The people are not so well organized and expect
their governments to protect them. The
interests of a corporation should be considered
from the standpoint of the people, because the
government should represent the people and
the people only. This is a subject which
should be given a great deal of thought by
the farmers of Canada, | They should see to
it that the men they elect really represent
them and are their servants and not their
masters.

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HUDSON BAY RAILWAY PROMISES

According to newspaper reports, the Domin-
ion government will bring down in the supple-
mentary estimates during the present session
in the House of Commons, an appropriation
to be spent on the Hudson’s Bay Railway.
Hon. George P: Graham, Minister of Rail-
ways, is the main authority for this statement.
The Toronto Globe had been devoting some
space to a criticism of the Hudson’s Bay
railway project, and endeavored to throw cold
water on the scheme. This is a narrow-

_ minded effort on the part of a great journal
to endeavor to stop the wheels of progress
in the west. In eastern Canada they cannot
‘understand the rate at which we are travelling
in this country. A little advance in popula-
tion and crop production in Eastern Canada
means a great deal, but when they come to
consider the immense advance made in the
west, it is hard for the eastern mind to appre-
ciate the hard facts. We are glad to know that
the Dominion government aims at an attempt
to fulfil its promise of “immediate construc-
tion” of the Hudson’s Bay Railway. It is
time that some move was made at Ottawa
towards this end. Investigations have been
going on for years, and the people of Canada
have been led to believe that there was moun-
tains of information in the possession of the
government of a nature to warrant going ahead

_ with the construction of the railway. The
people of the west have been of the same idea
and they have their hearts set upon a road to
the bay. There is not only some sentiment in
the matter but also a great deal of business
judgment. It is a matter of practical import-
ance to the farmers of the west, that the road
to the bay be constructed at once. The time
for dallying and playing with the question
has gone by. Pre-election promises are be-
coming played out, and in future governments

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that hold the confidence of the people must
make up their minds that they must do some-
thing for the people at other times, than im-
mediately before elections. Putting an appro-.
priation in the estimates is useless unless it is
spent immediately upon construction.

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IMMIGRATION SHOULD BE RESTRICTED

The present season promises the greatest
immigration in the history of Canada. Al-
ready immigrants from the Old Country and
also United States, are pouring into Canada
by the thousands, and the end of the season
will no doubt see several bundred thousand
new citizens in the Canadian West. It is very
pleasing to all that our country is so attractive
that it draws men from all nations. If they
are all of the right calibre, they will greatly
assist in building upthe west. What we need
chiefly is men who will bring their families
and locate on farms and remain there. We

have no need of more pepulaticn for our cities, °

as these centres will he built vp plenty fast
enough by the return from the country. We
want men with their families who know how
to do the work on the farm and who can make
a success of it. The best settlers are those
who have had practical experience in farming
and bring with them sufficient capital to make
a good start in a new country, where condi-
tions may not be quite so favorable as in the
land from whence they came. This is what
should be kept in mind by the immigration
authorities. There can be no question but
that a great many people that came into Cana-
da in years past as immigrants have been of
very little benefit to Canada. Of course it
impossible to tell how every man will turn
out, from a casual inspection. However,
the man that comes into the country should
not only be financially qualified, but should
be physically and morally qualified, to take
out citizenship in this country. It would be
far better to have a slightly reduced population
of high class, than to have a great population
of lower physical and moral quality. If we
bring in people to this country who are lower
than ourselves in the intelectual, physical
and moral standard, then they will have a
detrimental effect upon the present popula-

tion. If we bring in only the very highest
class, they will have an elevating in-
fluence. We cannot afford to bring in the

lower class, because it is too great a menace
to our civilization. There are plenty of desirable
people in the world who would like to come
to Western Canada, without encouraging any
of the undesirables, The winnowing machine
should be kept in operation continually at
the points where immigrants enter Canada:
The good seed alone should be allowed to
enter and the chaff should all be returned to
its original dwelling place. Let us not work
too hard for quantity, but rather for quality.
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JUST A POSSIBILITY

Down in the State of New York a great
many people are righteously indignant over
the way in which John Jacob Astor is securing
land upon which to maintain a princely estate.
By the time he completes his purchase he will
own a great number of farms, also several
villages. All this means a great deal of des-
truction and a distinct loss in productive
capacity. It is said that Astor will employ
only 40 persons on his estate, where formerly
there was quite a population.
is occurring away down in New. York State,
but it has a moral bearing very closely upon
conditions in Western Canada. At the present
rate at which great fortunes are being piled
up through the aid of special privileges, West-
ern Canada is certainly facing a danger.
We have in this western country millions of
acres of land that are as yet vacant. Up-

wards of thirty million acres are now owned:

by two great corporations and. other millions

of acres are controlled by smaller corporations::
All this land is held out of use and is being’

kept by its owners for a high-price..:.These’

This is what.

April 80th, 1810.

vast holdings were a straight gift of the
natural resources of Canada to corporations.
On a smaller scale this same principle is
involved in land ownership over the entire
west. Land is being held out of use by the
speculator continually. Every bit of this
idle land is increasing in value at an enormous
rate such as is not being equalled probably
anywhere in the world. ‘This increase. in
value is being created by the working people
of this country. Almost the whole of it being
done by the farmers. In addition to the crops
they are raising, the farmers are adding mil-
lions untold to the value of the vacant land
near them, yet in return, they do not get a
single advantage from that vacant land.
True, the system of taxation in. the western
provinces is an improvement on that-of the
eastern provinces and many other countries.
The fact that improvements are not taxed
is a great benefit to the farmers, but it is only
one step in the right direction. Not only
should. the improvements upon farm land
be not taxed, but the idle land should. be
more heavily taxed. The portion of the un-
earned increment of this idle land should
certainly go into the public treasury. The
municipalities should have power to impose
a heavier tax on land held for speculation
than on the land which is being honestly
worked by the farmers. Of course when this
principle of taxation is advocated, a great
many people will at once arise and shout,
“Henry Georgeism.” ‘Certainly it is along
the line of policy laid down by the “Prophet
of San Francisco,”” only Henry George went
still further. It is not well to go too far
at one move, but it is certainly advisable to
protect our farmers. If some move is not
made to protect them, the future of Western
Canada will see landlordism in existence on
the scale unknown in other lands. It is al-
ready in existence to a great extent and may
have some benefits, but the wealthiest, wisest,
happiest people that can live in and develop
any country, are those who own the land upon
which they live.

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A man who works honestly during the.day:
and devotes a portion of his leisure hours
daily to good books and study will forge to
the front in any line of work in which he may
be engaged.

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Let us have the elevator commission so
we can. get to work and prepare for the wheat
crop this fall. The Combine is tottering;
let us keep them going.

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When we reduce the spread between people
and governments it will be of more value
to the farmers than reducing the spread _ be-
tween street and track—and that is con-
siderable.

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The investigation now being made at the
terminal elevators may show something. of
interest. When rogues are to be watched,
however, it is better not to give them warning.
Any man can be straight for a short time if
he knows the eyes of the law are upon him.

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The farther the probe goes: into the Great
Waterways deal the less there seems to be
in it. It has the appearance of some of the
systems of high finance.

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~The past generation has seen wonderful.
changes in conditions. 'The day when the
farmer was regarded as the peasant and fit
only to work for the support of his “betters”
has gone by. The profession of ‘agriculture
has come to the front faster than’ any other
occupation in the last fifty years. The farmer,
who once was looked upon ‘as a ¢clodhopper,
is now rightfully regarded as the mainstay:
of the nation. Day by day the farmer looms
larger on the horizon.’ What has been’ the:
cause of it? Education. “ Knowledge is power”
was never proved more true than in the case’
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No. 38 .

INCE the plan of direct

people’s will is sovereign all the time.

[t Will Stop the Spoils System in Canada

legislation has been en-
dorsed: .by the great ma-
jority of Grain Growers’
Associations, and United
» Farmers’.Unions in Man-
itoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta..it has become
a subject of live, pul-
sating interest to the
members. The. system
proposed of the initiative, referendum
and recall has been acclaimed. by nine-
tenths of those who have had the matter
explained to them as a remedy for the
present day legislative evils.

In view of this, then, it will be opportune
to trace the beginnings of effective thought
on this subject, and to examine the pro-
gress of its advancement in the world
to the present time.

The drift of public sentiment towards
the extension of the initiative and
referendum is shown by the early
articles written upon the subject. In
1886 Professor A. V. Dicey of Oxford
University wrote on the referendum in
“The Nation;” in 1888 Boyd Winchester,
U. S. Minister to Switeerand: began: to
write ‘about ‘Swiss institutions; Professor
Bernerd Moses in the following year
published an essay: on “The Federal
Government. of Switzerland” and. Sir
Francis ,Adams’ “Swiss -‘Confederation”
also appeared in 1889.

In 1890 the ‘Universal Reviews”
contained an article on the referendum
by E. A. Freeman, and W. D. McCrackan
wrote a series of letters on the initiative
and referendum for the New York Evening
Post, and followed them with articles in
other publications. In 1891-2 many
writers took up the subject, and the first
direct legislation organization in America
was formed in Newark in 1892. There is
now a National ‘Direct Legislation League.

Since the early nineties there has been
so much written onthe subject that today
it requires six or eight pages of small type
to record ‘the titles of the books and
leading articles which have been published
in the United States and Canada. That
there is nothing partizan about the
movement is shown by the fact that it
has received support. from the press
of all shades of political partizanship.
In some of the states in the union it has
been made a plank in the platform of
every party in the state. In England the
conservative party has stated the refer-
endum as one of its leading aims, and in
Australia a powerful movement is on
foot to secure the obligatory referendum
‘in case of any. deadlocks or legislative
disagreement between the two houses.

Endorsed by Leaders of Thought

Among the supporters of direct legis-
lation are such men as John Wanamaker,
William J. Bryan, John. J..Woolley, the

rohibitionist, Samuel Gompers, labor
eader, Dr. Lyman Abbott, Lord Salisbury,
Lord Rosebery, William Dean Howells,
Arthur J. Balfour, Hon. Robert Treat
Paine, Jr. and Frances E. Willard.

William. Dean Howells wrote “I am
altogether in favor of the initiative and
referendum as the only means of allowing
the people. really to take part in making
their. laws and governing :themsel ves.”

A letter from Rev. Lyman Abbott
contains these words: “In my judgment
the remedy for, the evils of democracy
is more democracy; a fresh appeal from
the few to the many; from the managers
tothe people. 1 believe in the referendum
and within limits the initiative because
it is one form of this appeal from the few
to the many.” ade

Something about the Growth of Direct Legislation ; What it has
Accomplished; What the Leaders of Thought Think of it; How it
Destroys the Power of Legislators to Legislate for personal ends;
Its Tremendous Advantage over the present system by means of
which Party Success means Power to Mould the Laws of the Country

The Hon. John Wanamaker _. wrote,
“T heartily approve of the idea of giving
the people a veto on corrupt legislation.
The movement to secure for the people a
more direct and immediate control over
legislation shall have my support. I
trust such a movement will receive the
thoughtful attention of all who would
improve our. political and industrial
conditions. I am willing to trust public
questions to the intelligence and con-
science of the people.”

Frances E. Willard, president of the
World’s Womans’ Christian Temperance
Union, wrote: ‘I believe in direct
legislation and think it is so greatly
needed that language cannot express
the dire necessity under which’ we find
ourselves. The reign of the people is
the one thing my soul desires to see;

ont

because they have lost control of their
government, the most powerful instru-

mentality for the creation and distribu- -

tion of wealth in society. Its government
must be recovered by the American
people, peaceably if possible, but it
must be recovered. Direct legislation
would be the ideal means for this peaceable
revolution. If the revolution is to be
accomplished otherwise, direct legisla-
tion will stand forth in the new order
as the only means for expressing the
popular will that a free people will exer-
cise. No future republic will ever repeat
the mistake of giving its delegates the
opportunity to become its masters.”
Lord Salisbury, the great English
statesman, has said: “I believe that
nothing could oppose a bulwark to popu-
lar passion except an arrangement for

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H. Bailey and Family, Willow Bend Farm, McDonald, Man.

the reign of the. politician is a public
ignominy. I also believe that direct
legislation is certain to become the great

‘political issue in the immediate future.

The people are being educated by events.
They are coming to see that there is no
hope for reform under the existing system

‘of voting.”

The following extract is from a letter
written by Henry D. Lloyd, author of
“Weallh Against Commonwealth”’:

“Direct legislation—the initiative and

, referendum—must be supported by every

believer in free government . The
people have carelessly allowed — their
delegates in party, corporation and
government to become | their rulers,
and now they are awakening to the
startling fact that the delegate has be-
come their exploiter. The people’ are
losing control of their means of subsistence

deliberate and careful reference of any
matter in dispute to the votes of the
people.”

Direct Legislation Must Come

The late Professor Frank Parsons
writes in his book, ‘*The City. for: the
People’: ‘A little more than a hundred
years ago every nation in the. civilized
world was under an absolute aristocracy.
The .past century has been full of tre-
mendous movement in the direction of
democracy; 1775 all absolute monarchy;
1875 not an absolute government in
America or Europe, except in Russia
and Turkey; all the rest on the high
ground of» constitutional, government,
with representative houses and. wide
suffrage, or still further. up ‘the. slope
where kings and nobles absolutely vanish,
with a few almost at the top, where the

From absolute king to sovereign people—
that is the fundamental movement of
the age; and do you think it will stop
part way? Will forces that the kings
and emperors and aristocracies of Europe
have not been able to resist be held jin
check by a few politicians and plutocrats?
Not if the people continue to think.
Not if the press and the school can be
kept from the schemers’ control. If:
the movement toward democracy ‘does
not stop—if the evolution of equality
in government does not cease, direct
legislation must come. It has come in
Switzerland and to a large extent in
America, is used to some extent in
England and France; is vigorously de-
manded in New Zealand and Australia,
and is bound to come here, and in every.
other country where the trend to demo-
cracy is strong, because there is no other
way in which the rule of the few can
be entirely supplanted by the rule of the
many.

An idea of how the movement for
direct legislation has grown in the United
States may be gained from the fact that
in the last few years direct legislation
amendments or laws have been introduced
in almost every legislature in the country.
The following are some of the. states
where direct legislation measures’ have
been introduced: Indiana, Ohio, Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Dela-
ware, New Jersey, Maine, Massachusetts,
Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas,
Nebraska, Colorado, Washington, Mon-
tana, Idaho, New York, Illinois, North
and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Ore-
gon, Washington, California and perhaps
elsewhere. In some states vigorous work
has been done for the referendum at
every opportunity since 1894. In a
number of cases the measure has passed
one house and in some cases both houses,
but failed for lack of a 2-3 vote or for
some other reason. In still other cases,
the bill came within a few votes of passing.

South Dakota was the first state to
embody, in November, 1898, consti-
tutional provisions for the initiative and
referendum. Oregon was the second
state to pass a constitutional amendment
for direct legislation which was adopted
on June, 4, 1906, by a vote of 47,678 to
16,735. The people of Oregon are now
proving the educational value of their
legislative responsibility. A committee
of 18 citizens has only recently drawn
up a bill for new constitutional amend-
ments, thanks to the freedom of initiative
accorded them. It is ‘‘Designed to
provide a system by which the conduct
of state and county government may be
made as efficient and economical as the
management by the citizens of their
private business.”

Prevented a Franchise Grab
An instance of the benefits of the refer-

_endum was recently afforded in Kansas

City where the people, with their votes,
revented a franchise grab. The exist-
ing franchises of the Kansas City Street
Car Company will expire in 1925. Taking
time by the forelock, the company sought
an extension’ of 26 years, carrying their
monopoly down to’ 1951, ‘This was.
granted by the’ council and approved |
by the mayor, but /was' checked by the. ,
referendum. The -ordinance. made. little: ,;
or no provision for public -protection, oj
and it re-enacted all legal rights as to
fares. which the company now: have.
The. late Professor Frank Parsons,
in his book, “The City for the Péople,’’ *
Continued on page 30 oN

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THE GRAIN

GROWERS’ GUIDE

April 20th, 1910

What The Grain Growers Have Done For You

A Brief History of Reforms Achieved by This Association which has
brought added Wealth to every Western Farmer. Giant Young
Organization has produced a feeling of reliance among Producers,
and Grain Growers stand for their rights with assurance that the
Association is behind them, and that they will receive Justice.

HE Grain Growers’ Association
came into existence at a time
that was full of hardship to the
producer in the marketing of
his grain. Soon after the coming of the
railways into the west the production
of wheat exceeded the local demands;
yet it was some time before capital
could be persuaded to invest in an
elevator system. At that time the
C.P.R., in order to encourage the
building of elevators, granted a monopoly
of the grain trade to those who would
build standard elevators of not less
than 25,000 bushels capacity. The com-
pany had no power to do this, but it
suited their purpose.

Capital was not slow to take advantage
of the privilege thus granted, and we
very soon had the beginning of our present
elevator system. The producer was not
considered, except so far as he was useful
in making profits for the railway and
elevator companies. He had to put his
wheat through the elevators and take
the elevator grades and weights.

After a time the elevator companies
organized for the better carrying on of
their business, such as securing of bulk
lots of wheat for export, better freight
rates, both rail and water—things benefi-
cial to the producer as well as the dealer.
Monopoly is never satisfied so long as
it can squeeze a cent out of its victims.
The conditions which permitted the
grain dealers to make the foregoing

arrangements also allowed them in prac- .

tice to control prices; the grading of the
wheat; the amount of dockage they would
take; and run the business in a way that
would bring the highest profits to them-
selves.
Farmers Wake Up

This was the state of the grain trade
up till 1899. The farmers of Manitoba
and the territories in the old settled
districts by this time had gotten in much
better condition financially and were
protesting most seriously, through the
press and by public meetings, against
the exactions of the grain combine.
This grew to such an extent that the
federal parliament was induced to take
the matter up in 1900 and legislation,
known as the Manitoba Grain Act,—
by which the whole grain trade of the
west was brought under control and
supervision—was passed. Just as soon
as parliament had taken this action
the elevator combine took an advance
step in perfecting their organization.
which up to this time had been held to-
gether more by mutual consent rather
than by rules, by-laws and regulations,
for the reason that at times this did
not prove binding enough on individual
members.

Elevators Go One Better

This consisted in organizing what was
known as the North-West Elevator
Association, and which was re-organized
some years later as the North-West
Grain Dealers’ Association. Every mem-
ber joining had to subscribe to their
constitution and by-laws. The object
was by removing street buyers agreeing
on the price to be paid at the initial
shipping points pooling receipts, etc.,
to remove competition entirely and re-
duce the grain trade of the entire west
to one huge monopoly.

The purpose of the Manitoba Grain
Act was to free the farmer from these
exactions by allowing him to ship his
wheat by direct loading of the cars
through flat warehouses or however he
chose. These privileges were most vigor-
ously opposed by the railway and elevator
interests, and the farmer did not reap
the full benefit from it, partly because the
railway and elevator companies ignored
the act to a great extent, and partly
because many of the farmers did not
know the relief the act contained, and
when they did were not in a position
to enforce its provisions.

Farmers Organize

This was the state of affairs in 1901,
when the farmers, goaded to desperation
by the wheat blockade of that year and
the wrongs they were suffering, organized
under the body known as the Territorial
Grain Growers’ Association.

This was shortly after followed by a
similar one throughout Manitoba, and

‘requiring al

A Circular written for the Saskatchewan Association by Fred. W. GREEN, Gen.-Secretary

later on by one with the same aims in
Alberta known as The Alberta Farmers’
Association. These organizations have
always worked in harmony for the general
welfare of their common interests. To
be in the best position to do this it was
decided to have an organization composed
of the executive elected from time to
time from the different associations and
known as the Inter-Provincial Council of
Farmers’ Associations. This body which
met from time to time to take joint and con-
certed action on questions which affected
the farmers of all provinces alike, is now
superseded by the Canadian Council
of Agriculture.

It was very fortunate for the young
association that the men who were direct-
ing its affairs were not fire-eaters, or it
would have been short-lived, doing little
good for the grain producers and little
harm to their oppressors, but would

company must grant site for an elevator.
The permission to erect flat warehouses
ona siding where there is no platform,
or the existing one will not hold all asked
for at one time. Compelling all grain
dealers to be bonded, and -many other
minor amendments.

(3) The joint conference in Winnipeg
in 1904 of the producers, grain men and
railway interests to consider proposed
changes in the grading and supervision
of grain. The reccommendations of this
conference were embodied in the Grain
Inspection Act, assented to 10th of Aug-
ust, 1904,

(4) A joint conference of the Manitoba
and Saskatchewan representatives. in
February, 1906, to consider proposed
changes in the Grain and Inspection Acts.
The goverument granted the changes
asked for in the Inspection Act, but
claimed that they did not have the

R. S. Ferris and his

have stood as another monument to the
old repeated assertion that farmers
are not able to hold together.

The young organization immediately
set to work to deal with the grievances
calling most loudly for redress. It would
be impossible in a short article of this
nature to enumerate all the good works
and reforms that this joint organization
of grain growers of the three provinces
has brought about.

Benefits Received Through Organization

For new settlers and those who may
not have had an opportunity to follow
the history of the past events, we might
make special reference to the following:

(1) The enforcement of the law in
several cases, with the result of not having
it fairly well obseyved..

(2) The joint delegation sent by
Manitoba and the Territories to Ottawa
in 1903; succeeded in securing all the
amendments to the Grain Act asked for,
including that valued privilege the farmer
now enjoys of securing a fair share of
the available cars, and not being forced
to sell his wheat. at a sacrifice to the
elevators. This has meant very much
to the farmer, but he has not been able
to receive all the benefits arising from

it owing to the car shortage occurring

The appointment

warehouse commissioner,
dealers in grain to take:
out a license, leaving it to the warehouse
commissioner to decide whether a railway

from year to year.
of a. deput

Greys, Holland, Man.

necessary information to deal intelli-
gently with the changes asked for by the
Grain Act. Our representatives then
proposed that a grain commission be
appointed to inquire into ‘all phases of
the grain trade. This request was acceded
to, and the Royal Grain Commission
was appointed which made an exhaustive
inquiry. Their recommendations were
discussed and considered, and with the
exception of a few minor points, endorsed
by the Inter-Provincial Conference at
Saskatoon in February, 1908, and have
now become law.

\ few of the most important are:
It is an offence under the Act for the
elevator company to dispose of a_ bill
of lading without the consent of the
owner. If the operator of an elevator
is found breaking the law by improper
weights, dockage, or otherwise, he is
liable to a fine of $100.00, and the elevator
company shall discharge him. He shall
not be re-engaged by that or any other
elevator company for the space of one
year; if so, the commissioner shall cancel
the license of the elevator. If any grain
firm, member of a firm, or dealer, or any
authorized agent of a grain dealer or
firm shall influence by circular letter or
otherwise, the manager of any country
elevator, to give unjust weights or take
excessive dockage, he or they shall ‘be
liable. to a fine of $500.00. It ‘shall
be the duty of every grain commissjfon
merchant upon selling any grain’consigtied

to him for sale to immediately notify
the consigner of the quantity sold, the
name of the purchaser, the price therefor,
the date of sale, the grade, the amount
of advance and the terms .of delivery
of such sale. An applicant may order -
a car according to his requirements,
and if he requires any special standard
size he shall have such size stated by the
station agent in the car order books,
and in the event of the railway company
furnishing a car or cars to that station
of a size not required by the applicant.
the applicant shall not lose his priority,
but shall be entitled to the next car
of the size designated which can be de-
livered at such station.

Anyone is liable to a fine of $150.00
who:—Transfers or sells his right to any
car alloted to him; accepts any transfer
of the right of any applicant to a car;
any party who loads a car not allotted
to him by the station agent, or loads
a car out of his turn, according to the pro-
visions of the Act; any person who places
a name on the car order book contrary
to the Act; any person may institute
proceedings, and upon securing conviction
for infringement of any of the foregoing
violations of the act shall be entitled
to receive half the fine. All particulars
in the car order book shall be filled in
with ink. Every track buyer must
receive a receipt from each car purchased
made out on the authorized form. The
railway company must keep an agent
at a flag station where a certain amount
of grain is shipped during the shipping
season. Any grain dealer or dealers
entering into an agreement to pool
the earnings or receipts of country eleva-
tors shall be liable to a fine of $1,000 for
each offence. The warehouse commission-
er shall have power in his discretion during
the car shortage to direct the railroads
to make an equitable distribution of empty
grain cars to all stations in proportion
to the amount of grain available for
shipping from such stations. The Stand-
ard Board have been given the power
to fix standards for oats that they now
have for wheat. The binning of wheat
at the terminal elevators is put under
the control of the inspection department.
The amount of domestic grain in dockage
made by the inspector shall be marked
on the certificate, and the shipper shall
be allowed for the same at current price

How It Used To Be

Before we got the car distribution
clause inserted in the Grain Act, a farmer
could not get a car to ship his wheat if
an elevator wanted it, and had to take.
whatever the grain trade offered him.
Before the inspection act was amended
preventing mixing at the terminals,
etc., our wheat sold for $ cents per bushel
less than Duluth inspection in the British
markets. It lately sold for 6 cents per
bushel more. We _ got the practical
control of the terminal elevators at the
last session of parliament, all binning
of wheat being done under a government
inspector. The grain growers of the west
have benefited 5 to 10 cents per bushel
by these and other laws secured by this
association, or from $5,000,000 to $10,-
000,000 on the estimated crop of the west
for lust year.

The different associations have decided
on the government ownership of elevators,
and are taking joint action to try and bring
this about.

To put the associations on a more
permanent basis and save the trouble
and expense of collecting an annual fee,
a permanent membership scheme has
been adopted by which a member pays
$12.00 and becomes a member for life.
The fund thus created will be invested
and used for the work of the association.

From time to time interested parties
have tried to have legislation passed or

resent laws changed that would have
been inimical to the interests of the grain
grower, which the association has pre-
vented, such: as car distribution, etc.,
and by this work alone the grain grower
has been very much benefitted.

The vast amount of work done in such a

short time for the grain growers, and done

almost entirely by themselves, has been

“an object lesson and has produced a feel-
“ing of reliance and given them more than
“a “passing glimpse ‘of ‘their own power

Conlinued on page'23""'

April 20th, 1910

THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE

Public Ownership in New Zealand

public ownership is working out

satisfactorily, if published reports

can be believed. In New Zealand
the government does most of the things
that in other countries are done by
individuals or private companies, with
the result that the people as a whole
benefit. The government owns the rail-
ways, the telegraphs, the telephones, the
coal mines, sells life insurance, fire in-
surance, discharges the functions of public
trusteeship, provides old age pensions for
the indigent and state pensions for
government employees, and_ exercises
general supervision over everything affect -
ing the comfort and happiness of the
people. ,

New Zealand was the pioneer in the
adoption of .a two-cent postage all over
the world. It was found to pay. too,
for last year the post office handed
$653,000 to the public treasury, and in
the last ten years it has produced profits
amounting to nearly $4,000,000. When
the railways and. state-owned revenue-
producing properties begin to pay more
than the interest on the capital employed
in construction and development, the
cost of service is reduced. A_ railway
journey of 250 miles which in 1900
cost six dollars, costs only $2.50 today.
A bale of wool which was carried 100
miles in 1900 for $1.78, is carried today
the same distance for $1.34.

In order to promote the most effective
cultivation of the soil for the benefit
of the 1,000,000 inhabitants, special
concessions are made to farmers in the
transportations of manures and fertilizers
and seeds. Small settlements are en-
couraged and the holding of large blocks
by individuals discouraged—the latter
by the imposition of a graduated tax.

No Millionaires

There is a large amount of public
and private wealth in the country, but
no millionaires. They are not wanted
because the people have a confirmed

Toentt is one.country at least. where

Ss
Seri

belief that where there are millionaires
there is poverty in its most extreme
forms, which is happily absent from
New Zealand today. The people are
fond of amusements and sports. They
may not, owing to the climate, have
hockey and lacrosse, but they have
football and cricket, and other season-
able games. They have successfully
stocked their rivers with trout and
acclimatized deer in the mountains,
so there is plenty of hunting and fishing.
Wages are high and the government
helps labor in every way it can, as might
be expected from a succession of labor
ministers which have held power. It
is part of the duties of the police all over
the island to report to the labor bureaus
where employment. is. available. They
are thus encouraged to be on the outlook
for something besides crime and it does
them good. Effort is concentrated to
get people who fall into irregular employ-
ment out of the cities into the country.
Men looking for work are given passes
over the state railways on the under-

standing that they refund the price from _

their future pay or have it deducted from
their wages if they get employment
on public works. Public. works are
carried on mostly by co-operative labor
instead of by the usual contracts. Under
this system groups of workmen consisting
of four or upwards, may elect a foreman,
take a contract for a given piece of work
and share the proceeds equally, the gov-
ernment buying the material and super-
vising the work. This has been found
to result in better work, lower cost and
better men., Graft is unknown in the
country.

This is really no fairy tale, but plain
facts as they are stated by the premier
and chief justice. There are, of course,
special elements about the case of New
Zealand—its isolation, its newness, its
moderate climate, etc.—which make it
a peculiarly good field for social experi-

ments which might not be so successful

elsewhere.

The Unearned Increment

The success which is attending the
efforts of the western grain growers in
the direction of government. ownership
of elevators raises the hope that other
much desired changes will result from
the excellent organization which has been
brought about. t

One question in particular which
should receive their immediate and
earnest attention is that of the unearned,
untaxed increment in connection with
unimproved lands. In a country such
as the Canadian west where a steady
increase in land values is as certain almost
as the continued rotation of the seasons,
no safer and at the same time more
productive investment can be found
than that provided by the soil, and
the fact is showing itself today in the wide
areas of land being held at unreasonably
high figures where but five or six years
ago a sod had been turned or a homestead
taken up.

The farmer who, five years ago, staked
his claim in a wilderness may now, after
those years of effort find himself in a

osition to extend his’ operations, and
Tools longingly perhaps upon the neigh-
boring quarter section of “railway”
land. What does he find? Simply this,
that while he has been earning the
difference in value between his erstwhile
virgin homestead and the present im-
proved farm, he has also been earning
from perhaps ten to fifteen dollars per
acre for the absentee owner of the adjoin-
ing 160 acres. :

In other words, the man who lived
on his land during those years did home-
stead duties for two, and today if he
wishes to extend his farming operations,
‘he must pay for the work performed by
himself and in ratio to the extent of his
past energy.

Whole Community Sutters

But it is not merely a question which
affects the individual farmer. The whole
community must suffer in impaired
development by reason of the withholding
of land from settlement until such time

as a value is reached sufficient to satisfy
the parasitic speculator.

It is, of course, true that the unim-
proved land pays a share towards the
upkeep of schools and the building and
maintenance of roads, but such contri-
bution is in ninety-nine per cent. of
the cases insignificant in comparison
with the return in enhanced value to
the owner as result of such expenditures
of taxes.

Briefly the question can be summed
up in the statement that while we levy
an income tax upon a citizen’s salary,
the absentee landowner, whose income
from the unearned increment is quite
as certain as the salary in question, is
under the present system exempt. In
Great Britain they are beginning to treat
increases in land values due to sur-
rounding development as belonging rightly
to the community who created them rather
than to the creature of circumstance in
whose name they happened to be held,
and in Canada the same view can very
justly be taken.

In Canada the untouched wealth
created by the mighty development
now going on should contribute in a
very large part to the maintenance of
government and its institutions.

—Battleford Press.
ow we

The telephone trust, the second largest
trust in the world, it being outranked only
by the United States Steel Corporation,
came into legal existence March 30,
when there was filed with Secretary of
State Koenig, at Albany a certificate of
an increase in the capital stock of the
American Telephone and Telegraph Co.
from $200,000,000 to $500,000,000. After
Mr. Koenig had accepted the papers
a cheque for $10,000—the state tax—

was sent to the state treasurer by the

officers of the company.
wm om w&
He only is fitted to rule who is afraid
to rule wrong. ‘
eo oe

Once there was a woman who couldn’t
be flattered; but she got lost.

Page 0

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In writing to The Guide be sure to use a separate sheet of paper when dealing
with more than one subject. By following this advice all correspondents will

greatly assist the office staff of The Guide as different subjects are treated by
different departments.

Page 10 THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE April 20th, 1910,

SSS THESHOUSE OF STEELE, BRIGGS

Carries the distinction of haying introduced the only vegetable seeds ever

bred and brought outin Mani!oba—WESTERN BEAUTY PEA and HONEY
ere t e or rows ts eat POD BEAN. These are INVINCIBLE Varieties.
ORLOFF OAT ane earliest “pe bee meekly kind ior
ae SOU )=6Cltthe «snew settler on “breaking’’—will succee
An Interesting Summary showing the Area and Production of certain where all others fail—may be sown as late as June 10th and still give a
Cereal Crops for the year 1909, and comparisons with previous crop—ahead of barley as a cleaning crop—yielded 110 bushels per acre

: ; at Brandon Experimental Farm, 1909.
years. Where Canada Stands in the World’s Figures.

SILVER KING BARLEY Yielded 56 bushels per

The following tables have been compiled from those published by the International

acre and a good sample.
Agricultural Institute in the bulletin of Agricultural Statistics for February, 1910. a :
‘Hectares and quintals’ have been converted. into acres and bushels. These tables FLAX FOR SEED Pure and clean—don’t risk anything else,

show the area and production, in the principal countries, of wheat, oats and barley for ‘“ ” Pr ery)
ithe years 1909, 1908 and averages for the years 1899 to 1908 inclusive; also comparisons Hardy Alfalfa Lion Red Clover

‘in percentages between the figures for the years 1909 and 1908, and between 1909 and “Condor” Alsike “Marten” Timothy

of revi . * A » Wierd
\the average of the ten previous years. These grades have the biggest sales in Canada and win their way’ by intrinsic worth.

The figures as to the areavand production which are contained in’ these tables . ;
‘have been compiled entirely from official statistics furnished directly by, the governments q Wri te for Catalogue and Prices
‘of the adhering countries, either through regular statistical reports or in rheponse to ‘

‘the inquiries of the institute.

The institute will publish annually statistical statements similar to these tables.
/Under the plan of the statistical service of the institute, which began with January 1,
1910, it is intended to compile and publish such data hereafter in the form of preliminary
and definite statements during the autumn and winter of each year and in the months
following the completion of harvest and threshing in the different parts of the world.

4
'

1909 compared ~ =: - SORES? at — “

WHEAT with 1908
is) ! Lo LICENS!
1909 1908 Se Be "M A CLENN N BROS. |
io} a
CouNnTRY AcRES BusHELs AcrRES BusHELs p 2°
: Riis Nes SASS =~ Ws GRAIN EXCHANGE "
Germany..... 4,528,516 188,399,277 4,654,962 188,742,214 97.2 99.7
Austria. ...... 2,940,908 58,636,737 2,958,311 62,808,153 99.4. 94.1 ats : ar cy te ax
Spain ........ 9,348,257 144,611,581 9,272,101 120,316,725 100.7 120.1 :
‘France... -. 16,329,135 $61,050,500 16,143,994 $17,602,964 100.1 113.7 ae Sold to Highest Bidder. Net il Wired on Request
Gt. Britain and Patronize the independent track buyer and commission dealer and preserve
Ireland. .... 1,866,369 64,525,212 1,662,859 54,963,503 112.2 117.4 Farm ers eb inet on four Poed ne nip your grein Be er nh et Wied ania:
Hungarie jvc 8,809,127 125,363,287 9,470,427 163,904,100 93.0 75.6 andiadvauce you prepald-all she monip you want, @. Writetorour macket card ond shipping
Dials reek Rlsepsseccetn Ehesteenes chuciuene 12,615,772 154,199,584 veces cesssees dieecticons-
Riala we... s, 65,274,298 786,472,363 61,339,079 568,718,494 106.4 °138.3 ss
United States . 46,704,781 718,286,923 | 47,538,305 648,510,828 98.2 110.2 es 2
Argentine Rep.. 14,416,279 140,951,250 15,075,857 156,515,669 96.8. 90.0 2
India .:....... 25,944,852 253,592,377 22,797,282 ° 204,065,358 113.8 124.3
Australia ...... 6,245,941 82,288,514 5,259,764 62,774,870 118.7 131.0
‘Canada’ ...... 7,747,370 166,752,540 6,607,714 111,067,853 117.3 151.0
eid ope 1909 d wi
TEN YEAR AVERAGE, 1899-1908 year avertue 1890-1008
. Propuc-
; na G
. ranked es eas ACRES RUSE ais Arra % n10N %
Germany .............-.... 4,688,259 133,891,848 97.5 103.4 ;
‘Avistria. sich nates vie 2,741,028 51,382,995 107.3 114.2 Wes
Spyies eee ee se ee 9147608 114,997,459 102.1 125.7 iS a rpacaiconh hand Pca prom ttn i
‘France .. . 16,385,414 336,258,685 99.0 107.4 A: ‘ Ligey q
Great Britain and Ireland .... 1,744,485 55,354,408 106.9 116.6 a © Standard Woven Wire Fence
Ailtigdty sate yee neces 9,036,255 162,274,502 97.5 , 77.8 iss ;
Italy... eee eee cee ee NS 687T BSL 16 1,280,526 sc a Riek with the Tie That plana Jeet wires well aninaulseal Gad. Meeked
Rusia lo _.... 57,591,128 544,443,372 113.3 144.5 loop allows a long bend in the running wires.
United States.........-..... 46,647,192 643,373,767 100.6 111.0 patched bo thet the acs laid sooere witasor Sonn” ween ee neon
‘ Argentine sroubne! wy oe LT, 246,870 121,022,788 129.3 116.5 Mage enn oat book that you eught to know, Write for free cepy and
Tails eee cee vice e ees 24,820,118 257,182,477 107,1 98.6 Thi Rinaesd Worn Ponsa tic of Mindsicekt pas a ines,
Australia ....... ladys cust BOIS T14 51,152,332 111.3 160.7 hae sheet ohemased
‘Canada ...............-.... 4,850,239 90,341,697 159.7 184.6
orem ne v. = " Sra Pe enna — — : : 1909 compared
1909 1 BARLEY with 1908
OATS with 1005" ;
° ‘ 1909 1908
1909 1908 : Bas
A ag CountRY ACRES Busnets - AcRES BusHELs
CouNTRY ACRES BusHELS ACRES BusHELS & g °
Seabee nn Ay
- Germany ..... 4,066,494 163,594,829 4,023,548. 143,202,618
Germany....... 10,645,617 564,340,461 10,550,003 475,848,473 100.8 118.6 | Austria........ 2,819,295 81,163,533 2,758,051. 70,813,955
Austria. ...... 4,572,523 154,834,218 4,492,698 129,317,234 101.8 119.8 | France ........ 1,821,020 50,518,120 — 1,802,063 42,996,295
France ....... 9,648,141 $54,167,574 9,624,775 293,662,886 100.2 120.6 | Spain ........ 3,478,518 83,124,102 8,465,252 70,914,449
Great Britain and Great Britain &
Ireland ..... 4,016,015 209,514,497 4,167,515 206,403,467 96.4 101.5 Ireland. .... 1,826,780 77,092,618 1,821,321 . 68,834,119
Hungary ...... 2,944,611 87,852,872 2,858,326 66,801,250 103.0 131.5 | Hungary ...... 3,015,006 75,676,129 2,806,303 59,991,689
Russia ........ 46,239,783 1,029,316,633 45,660,627 847,642,429 101.38 121.7 | Russia........ 26,850,701 483,166,888 — 26,536,904 385,561,679
United States ., $8,191,015 923,984,609 $2,331,354 674,697,256 102.7 136.9 | United States .. 7,008,259 173,210,916 6,643,401 169,915,112
Argentine Rep. . sce 36,547,440 1,564,251 27,709,848... 127.8 | Argentine Rep. ... a ws 149,682 1,450,800
Aiiatra has 2 cc Se adisgl aks dal 5s gacuesasebeletes 675,866." IZ;776,941. oie scaes Australia ...... 140,192 38,202,828
Canada ....... 9,198,862 353,451,648 7,937,995 249,109,769 117.1 141.9 | Canada....... 1,871,591 . 55,377,626 . 1,745,018 41,711,974

; 1909 d with
TEN YEAR AVERAGE, 1899-1908 1909 compared with TEN YEAR AVERAGE, 1899-1908 10 year averaye

10 yeur average

* Provvuc-
Country AcRES Busuens Arua % ala Country AcnEs Busnes _ ABBA “mon %

(a) F
' : Germany oso 4,187,297 146,344,077 98.3 111.8
, Germany ...... Oe ete ee 0,489, 868 464,562,240 102.1 124-8" P Ausltia eee ere ae! 2,934,180 72,445,948 96.0 112.1
RRO a ae ee ON EE MTA, T89 119,562,772 100.0 129.1 France Ee ce een tes RS OSB 43,273,630 101.5 116.7
Bat 5 gee em ir re Gee . 9,555,408 276,803,187 101.0 1270: :|: Spat vis sca cy epee . $,472,188 66,169,292 100.2 125.6
Great Britain and Ireland .... 4,180,055 188,821,910 96.1 110.9 Gist: Britain & Ireland ..+. 2,008,601 71,544,073 90.9 107.8
FUMES Ys os Gs Cai ey 2,745,608 74,009,518 107.2 VIG, 7) AURAL Ys eda eds 2,733,826 63,398, 122 110.3 119.3
RNa eri ee Se) 44,370,552 793,186,850 104,2 129.8 | Russia . Siege agra’ ot, £83068, 202 319,980,024 116.4 151.0
United States ............... 28,745,388 761,919,960 114.7 121.3 | United States Nia Shiner ee 4,946,141 125,312,777 142.0 182.5
Aiistralla eee 537,381 TS SBG;OR0 oo cee Clea Australia. ited al Soe algae 107,294 QINTZB52 —— aasenes seseenes

CANAGE. (okra shea eds 6,152,603 207,634,569 149.5 170.2 | Canada........ dy ibe a te pee OE 37,088,017 154.7 149.3

April 20th, 1910

THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE

at

Girl Graduates in Agriculture

There are now many farmers who
can afford to send both boys and girls
to the agricultural college, and_ this
education is the best possible investment
for them. It brings them in touch with
the best trained minds, which inspires
them with new ideals and aims in life,
turning them in a direction that leads
to a life of great usefulness. I will tell
how this has worked out in actual prac-
tice in a somewhat isolated farm home in
New York, which I have known many
years.

The farm home is in southeastern
New York, on one of the streams which
flow into the Delaware River. The
scenery in this locality is very beautiful.
This is a dairy, poultry and fruit farm.
The farmer and his wife were middle-
aged. Two of the daughters have grad-
uated from Cornell University, one is
now there and another expects to go
soon. ‘There are no boys and the father
avas confronted with the problem of how
to work his farm so as to be able to make
a living and educate his children, there-
fore the girls assisted and learned to do
well all kinds of farm work, and the out-

The Manager of the Dairy

door life developed remarkable strength
and endurance. There is little heavy
work to do, as the best machinery is
used, mowers, reapers, corn harvesters,
horse seeders, cultivators, ete. A dairy
of thirty cows, several hundred hens and
a flock of sheep are kept on the farm.
There is a large orchard of apples, cherries,
plums and pears, an acre or more of
strawberries, and plots of raspberries
and blackberries. Another product of
the farm is maple sugar.

How Education Helped

While all the girls work on the farm as
needed, each has a department for which
she is especially fitted. In the house
one of the girls does the housekeeping
and cooking, another does the sewing
and dressmaking, while another gives
attention to the garden and poultry.
The education and development of these
girls is largely due to the mother, who
is also a student of the science of agri-
culture and home-making.
to develop the best life of her children
she has done hard, faithful work and made
many sacrifices. The same can be said
of the father. He was a well-educated
and hard-working man, and sought to
avail himself of the best helps in his
study of scientific farming. In this home
one can see how science has contributed

In her desire .

to the health of the family, which is
largely due to hygienic cooking and
housekeeping.

Farm Management

About the time two of these girls had
graduated from the agricultural college
their father died and left the farm for
the girls and their mother to manage.
They were so well educated and trained
that in the few years since, all the opera-
tions of the farm and house have been
carried on very successfully. Very often
in such cases the old farmstead, which
the family has learned to love, must
be sold because of the lack of knowledge
of how to make the farm profitable.
On this farm a little more help is hired,
and everything goes on as usual. When
the girls are needed to work or oversee
work done in the field they take pleasure
in free out-of-door life. With almost
perfect health, and dressed in their
bloomer suits it is no burden to them.
The rightly educated person does not
lose, but rather gains in culture and
refinement, by this out-of-door work.

Financial Returns 3

Many will want to know about the
financial profits on the farm as compared
with other occupations. I have recently
investigated the profits in farming in this
locality, and I have found farmers with
50 cows and a total investment of about
$10,000 who are realizing a net profit
of $2,000 after deducting interest on
investment, paying running expenses,
but allowing for reasonable house rental.
The farms are furnishing the families
with milk, eggs, fruits, vegetables, fucl,
etc., in addition to the profits above
mentioned. The results of scientific dairy
farming are shown by the above state-
ments, to which may be added the income
from poultry, sheep, etc. Where such
results are obtained there seems to be
little inducement for girls or boys to leave
the farm.

Some one may ask, Will the girls’
agricultural education be lost if they
should marry and leave the farm? I
reply: The work of life goes on just the
same after marriage, and whether mar-
riage takes them away from the farm or
not many of the duties of life remain the
same. In many other than farm homes
the wife oversees poultry keeping and gar-
dening in addition to housekeeping.
Surely the husband needs the co-operation
of a wife who can do this work scientifi-
cally. The world needs people—whether
men or women—who can do_ things
right. Opportunities for reading the best
literature, and the feeling of security that
comes from having regular and permanent
employment are other compensations of
a well-ordered and scientific farm life.
Here, if you have sown wisely in early
life, you may establish a home for old
age and reap a bountiful harvest.

ge ge

IN THE INTERESTS OF THE
PEOPLE

Alberta Grain Growers have voiced
a popular protest against the excessive
prices of coal and lumber which are natural
products in abundance in that province.
They suggest government coal mines
and government saw mills. There is
really no need of either. The government
controls the timber and coal resources,
and also the railways that transport the
products to the consumers. All that is
required is that the government control
be exercised in the interest s of the people
as a whole instead of in the interests of
the few grafters who have been granted
special privileges by the government.—
Neepawa Press.

fo fe ate
WOMEN HOMESTEADERS

Will Channon, of Cordova, has a letter
in last issue of THe Grain Growers’
GuibE advocating that women be allowed
to homestead as well as men, and asks,
Why not? This privilege is extended to
women in the western states of the U. S.
A man with daughters has then an equal
chance to acquire land with the man whose
family is composed of boys. And again
it has been proved that where women
have the opportunity they have proven
equal to the task of successful home-
steading.—Neepawa Register,

Only Four

Cows

That the dairy comprises only four

cows, is sometimes given as a reason for

not purchasing.

A NEW

IMPROVED

DE LAVAL

Cream Separator

As a matter of fact, four cows and a De Laval Separ-
ator will produce as much butter as six cows without the
separator, and the labor will be cut in two in the middle.

Anyone who doubts the truth of this statement and
the fact that the De Laval will earn its cost in the time
allowed for payment may, upon application to the Company
or its nearest agent, secure a free trial of a New Improved

machine of suilable size.

The De Laval Lasts A Lifetime

The DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO.

Montreal

WINNIPEG

Vancouver

THE EMPIRE-C

anada’s Standard Writer

Price $ 6 O Price

This machine has been adopted by The Grain
Growers’ Grain Co., the British Govern-
ment, and the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Sold on easy monthly payments, sent on

trial; rented and repaired.

Aikins & Pepler

219 McDermot Avenue -

WINNIPEG

10,000 Acres

We have the above amount of land, improved and wild, located in

the Red River Valley district; all first-class.
to $50.00 per acre.

C. T. FELTON, Room 3 Alberta Block, 2554 Portage Ave., Winnipeg

Prices from $15.00

Call or write immediately.

STAY WITH IT

Who says the farmers of the West
can’t organize? Saskatchewan sent 500
delegates to Prince Albert the other day
to attend the annual convention of the
Grain Growers’. By George, first. thing
we know the politicians will be getting
SCARED and doing something for the
agricultural class in the way of decent
legislation. Some roads may be _ built
and some freight rates cut in two and some
elevators taken over by the government.
Moreover, we are willing to bet that right
now the premier of this province is SORRY
he was in such a hurry to cut down the
different grants to schools, roads, and
agricultural societies. Ah, well! Stay
withit, Mr. Farmer. If you succeed there
is no doubt the whole province will be
successful.—The Carrot River Journal.

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At the recent Grain Growers’ conven-
tion at Prince Albert it was shown that
Canadian made implements are sold
in Great Britain 80 per cent. cheaper
than in the west. Part of the difference
is due to freight rates—via the water

route to Great Britain as against all rail
to the west—but most of it is due to the
fact that we have a protective tariff in
Canada, while they have free trade in
Great Britain. Surely when a_ binder
can be sold profitably for $105 in Britain
it could be sold here profitably for less
than $150,—Ex.
a te

Public ownership of telephones in the
three western provinces has proven a
big success, and will prove still bigger.
Now what’s wrong with the public owner-
ship of the future great highway to salt
water tide, The Hudson Bay railway?—
The Carrot River Journal.

So

A steer costs at the most fifty dollars.
Served on the platter at restaurant rates
it is worth two thousand dollars, and glue,
tallow, oils, drugs, leather, brushes,
fertilizer, combs, buttons and _ soap,
are what the packer knows as “velvet.”
The “Optimist”? wants to know “‘ who gets
the money?” Gentlemen, you are al-
lowed one guess.—Ex,

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A FARMERS’ PARTY NEEDLESS

Editor, Guipe:—If I did not believe
this subject to be one of great importance
I would not trouble you with another
letter, and at once I would say it is not
at all a question of non-partisanship.
Were that the question there would
not, I think, be any difference at all
between Mr. Kirkham and myself. By
a non-partisan 1 mean a man who keeps
himself informed on public matters
but stands without pledge to cither party,
who, when election times comes, gives
his support where he thinks his interest
will be best served. This is not at all
what Mr. Kirkham gives his endorsement
to. He uses the ‘word ‘‘non-partisan”
and at once quotes with approval the
following passage: “‘The great benefit
would be to get the Grain Growers organ-
ized on political matters and educated
to take their right place by having their
own representatives in rural districts.”

Without debating the question whether
an organized party of non-partisans
is not a contradiction in terms, it seems
to me as plain as daylight that what
Mr. Kirkham means is that our Grain
Growers’ movement should set itself
to organize itself into a party for political
objects, and that to achieve this end
the members should cut themselves
loose from any present party allegiance,
and having made this proposal he invokes
unity in a poetic quotation apparently
not seeing that his statement merely
amounts to this, “All agree with me,
then we shall be united.” It is not at
all surprising that many who join the
Grain Growers’ movement should hold
this view. To them I would like to
point out that they are not advocating
non-partisanship at all, but the formation
of a party whose program shall be purely
industrial. Now I would seriously ask
what chance is there for such a party?
And what would be its effect upon our
Grain Growers’ organization?

For one thing, we might make sure
of its receiving the antagonism of both
the present political parties. It would
have to formulate a policy and if that
policy was confined strictly to matters
affecting farmers it would probably
antagonize most other interests in the
province, not only so but would anyone
seriously contend that such a party would
have the ghost of a chance of winning
half a dozen of the provincial seats
out of the forty-one? I most certainly
think not, and while this hopeless outlook
confronts us it would entail upon our
movement an odium one does not like for
a moment to contemplate. It is unfor-
tunately too true that no one can become
connected with politics without en-
countering things in the last degree
unpleasant. Can anyone suppose afarm-
ers’ party would escape this usual penalty,
or does Mr. Kirkham suppose we could
have a farmers’ party that would be en-
tirely free from the men whose first and
last word is what is there in it for me?
I should hardly suppose even he thinks
it possible. My experience has taught
me that we farmers as a class are certuinly
possessed of qualities that compare
favorably with any other class of the
community, but we should scarcely be
justified in expecting nothing but saintli-
ness even from our own class. To sum
the whole matter up the endeavor to
form a political party out of the Grain
Growers’ movement would be just about
the most hopeless undertaking to which
men could put their hands.

Then think of the likely result of such
an attempt upon the movement itself.
Up to now we have appealed to all think-
ing farmers to join, no question has

Every letter must be signed by the name of the writer though not
The views of our correspondents are not of necessity those of The
The aim is to make this department of great value tu readers and no letters not of public

ever been asked any man about his politics
or his political affiliations. All we have
pleaded was that as a tiller of the soil,
he had a common interest with the rest
of us who have formed ourselves into this
association. I do not think there can
be any doubt that two-thirds of the pres-
ent members are cither Conservatives
or Liberals. This may be very unfortunate,
but then, Mr. Editor, every theory must
take into account common, ordinary
every-day facts. It may even be as
Mr. Kirkham appears to think very sad
or even wicked, but if his opinion is
correct it does not alter the fact. One
might go further and state that when these
liberals and conservatives joined the
Grain Growers’ Association they had no
intention by so joining to forswear their
party allegiance. Now imagine an active
movement within the Grain Growers’
Association, having for its object an
organization on political matters. The
initiation of such a scheme would be an
apple of discord. I am sadly afraid that
instead of unity we should have a disrup-
tion, in the presence of which Mr. Kirk-
ham's invocation of unity, even though

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That some things each side say need not
be taken seriously goes without saying,
but outside their criticism of each other

am quite convinced that there is a
genuine desire on the part of both sides
to do useful public service But in the
work of administration and_ legislation
representative men are largely indebted
or their knowledge upon the information
supplied by the parties interested. If
any of the corporate interests want any-
thing they press that something upon the
attention of the legislature and the govern-
ment. It is notorious that no govern-
ment, whatever its party name, goes
searching very anxiously for additional
work, and it is undeniable that in the rast
the farming community has done little
more than grumble. Their grumbling
rarely takes a definite form, until, as
we know, it has passed into a proverb,
“the farmers will grumble anyway.’

One of the things that have weighed
upon me since I have been a member
of the legislature, is the lack of apparent
interest taken in the work of the legisla-
ture by even my own farmer constituents,
and this is, I feel certain, the chief reason
why farmers interests have not received
the amount of attention they should have
done. How many of the local branches
of the association have thought of sending
their resolutions to their M. L. A.? Not
many I fecl sure. The point of all this,
Mr. Editor, is, that it is futile to create
new machinery when you have plenty
already which you do not try to utilize.

My hope is that as an organization,
we shall, us far as possible, keep to those
industrial matters that affect us in our
occupation as farmers, upon which we
may reasonably hope that there will be
no serious division among us, or at least
no division that cannot be removed by
friendly discussion among ourselves. As
to those things upon which we may desire
legal enactment we may rest assured,
if our organization is sufficiently strong
and aggressive the politicians will be found
bidding against each other for our sup-

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he gave us more poetry and further quota-
tions of scripture, would be worse than
useless, and if this would be so what would
be its effect on the work of gaining more
members? Why, where to-day we are
winning six we should be lucky if we
gained two. In short, if at any time we
think the Grain Growers’ Association
has no more useful work to do than start
a movement to “organize non-partisans,
so as to get a unity of votes,” my belief
is you will at the same time see the be-
ginning of the end of our industrial
movement.

This may appear to men of Mr. Kirk-
ham’‘s cast of mind a somewhat hopeless
forecast because he never tires of dwelling
upon the bossisms of our political parties,
and the juggernaut-like machinery con-
nected with them, the whole of which
wants improving off the face of the earth;
but for myself I take an altogether dif-
ferent view of these things. The reason
I think is, that Mr. Kirkham only sees
these things from the outside while I
have had some little opportunity of secing
them from the inside, in consequence
of which I have been privileged with
opportunity to give a more impartial
appraisement. The men with whom I
have come in contact on both sides of
politics will bear fair comparison with
those who undertake to criticize them.

port, and we shall realize this most de-
sirable result, that instead of the farmers
being the tools of the politicians, as they
too often have been in the past, the poli-
ticians will be made what indeed they
always should, be, the useful servants of
the farming community.
GEO. LANGLEY.
Maymont, Sask., April 2nd.

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WHY GOVERNMENT ELEVATORS
WILL PAY

Editor Gutpe:—In your issue of March
80, Mr. Geo. Steel, M.P.P., of Glenboro,
is reported as saying:

“If the advocates of this bill could
show me that, as a competitive system
the grain passing through these elevators
will pay interest on the cost and the run-
ning expenses I would support the bill.”

Now, Mr. Editor, the puint raised by
Mr. Steele is very important; of the very
highest importance, and it should be
met and answered. It is a question that
has arisen in the minds of a great many,
and they want it answered, hence I
take this opportunity of asking the
question, “* Who pays?”

But first, let us get a clear idea of what
“pay” means. If 1 work for a farmer for
seven months, and he pays me $200 at
the end of my service, he is said to have

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paid me my wages. But what is thi®
$200 that he has given me? Is it not
simply so much of the crop—wheat,
cattle, hogs, ete., ete., that my labor has
helped him to produce? That is, I gave
him so much labor, and he gives me back
in exchange, so much labor in the shape
of “labor certificates” that will exchange
at any time and at any place for other
people’s labor in the shape of goods,
such as shoes, overalls, lumber—labor
and products generally. A dollar bill
is really so much corn, wheat, goods—
things labored for. A dollar bill means
more than the dirty bit of green paper
with printing on. It represents human
effort, human flesh and blood. In this
sense all money is blood money. So that
the farmer does not pay me off with mon-
ey, but really with the things produced
by labor. He has given me labor for
labor, and this exchange of labor between
me and the farmer is an exchange of
mutual benefit. All buying and selling
is only a matter of ‘‘exchange of labor
for labor.” Let us get this clear idea of
money in our minds first, and then per-
haps we can find out, ‘“‘who pays”, and
“how” the paying is done. Most people
have a very hazy idea of what money is
and what it is not. Gold and silver are
not at all necessary as many people
suppose. We are supposed to pay our
debts in gold, but the fact is, we seldom
see a gold coin. In the time of the war
in the U. S., between 1861 and 1865,
the government issued paper money in
denominations of 10, 20, 25 and 50 cents,
and Lincoln pointed out one of the most
important lessons of that war, namely,
that people could get along without
gold and silver, as money, and could
actually create millions of ‘fiat’ money
In paper, as easily asa printer can run off
dodgers. A dollar, then, is a labor
certificate, being a medium of exchange
and a measure of value. When we pay
our M.P.P’s. a thousand dollars sessional
indemnity we really give them a thousand
dollars’ worth of wheat, cattle, and store
goods, that others have labored for.
When the federal government boasts
that its customs receipts for the year
ending March $1, 1910, is one hundred
million dollars, it means that the people
of Canada have had to work and earn
one hundred million dollars’ worth of
wheat, and then hand it over to the
government for the fun of being ‘“‘govern-
ed.” So it is easily seen that it is not
““money”’ that ‘“‘pays,”? but the “labor”
of the people that money represents.

Who Pays for the Elevators?

That being the case, we can now see
who ‘“‘pays” for the elevators. An ele-
vator is a product of labor. It is human
labor that cuts the trees into lumber,
seasons it, makes the nails, paint, every-
thing that goes into its construction,
and puts it together. It is not capital
that erects elevators, but labor. Capi-
tal itself is a labor product and could
never have existed if labor had not first
existed. The capitalists are men with
money, the stored up lubor of other peo-

e.

It is the labor of the farmers that pro-
duces the crops. Without this labor there
would be no crops for any elevator to
handle. The railways would haye no
grain to be hauled. The implement
factories would shut down the minute
farmers ceased to raise grain. Seeing,
then, that it is the labor of farmers that
keeps going, and makes pay, all elevators,
railroads, factories, ete, then is it not
their labor that pays for all these things
in the long run?

But farmers “own” none of these
things, although it is their labor that
produces them, furnishes business for
them, ete. If the railroad company gets
money is it not out of the farmers that
they get it, in the last analysis?

Now, if a private individual can erect
an elevator, run it, get interest on his
investment and pay for his labor, pray,
out of whom is he getting it? Whose
labor is paying it? So, if the government
erects an clevalor, and makes it pay,
is the “pay” not coming out of the crop?
Out of the farmers? Private individuals
have been known to leave the farm,
move to town and buy grain, and svon
have homes and luxuries that they never
could have dared to indulge in.on the farm;
but was it not the grain growers that
paid fur all? An elevator erected out
on the prairie, far from a railroad, would
be a losing proposition, but an elevator
in a town, beside the track, where elevators
usually are, with a lot of grain growing
farmers tributary to that town, could not

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be anything else but a “paying” concern.
But the labor of the farmers would do the
“paying,” just as that labor pays every-
thing else. If the industry of farmers can
erect elevators; pay buyers, pay interest
on the cost of the elevators and make
millionaires out of a few of the private
dealers in grain, then surely that same
industry can supply any government-
owned elevator, with sufficient business
to pay the expense of running it and
interest on the cost of it. It is the labor
of farmers that has erected every elevator
now in existence, but they don’t “‘own”
them. And that is the very point where
so many farmers feel sure, and are deter-
mined that existing wrongs shall pass
away. Yours truly, :
W. D. LAMB.
April 2, 1910.

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SUGGESTS IMPORTANT CHANGE
IN THE GRAIN ACT

Editor, Gurpr:—I wish to call attention
through your columns to a resolution
that was passed at a recent meeting of
the Findlayson branch of the Grain
Growers’ Association that I believe is
worthy of space here, and the consider-
ation and action on the part of the central
executive to put it into effect. It was
moved that section 89 of the Manitoba
Grain Act be amended as follows:

“That the words, ‘in use by the railway
company’ in section 89 of the Manitoba
Grain Act be struck out.”

And it was also moved that the clause
be appended, “In the event of the railway
company not furnishing the sized car
ordered when applicant’s turn arrives,
or within 5 days thereafter, applicant
shall be at liberty to load into first car
of larger size placed, and that no extra
freight be charged, provided he loads
within the maximum and minimum
weights allowed for size of car ordered.”

This is a matter of special importance
to shippers on the C.N.R., which company
only provides 60,000 lb. cars. In conse-
quence, many small shippers and those
at a distance from loading point, not to
mention those who have loaded several
cars and have a few hundred bushels
over, have no alternative but to sell
on the street, unless they can arrange
to ship in with someone, in which case,
removing bulkhead about $9.00 and other
extra charges, tend to reduce profits
to a level of street prices, irrespective of
trouble entailed.

I have explained at some length but
I believe the urgent need of the farmers
warrant it, also that the resolutions
set forth cover the ground, but in any
case an endeavor should be made to
remedy the grievance before next fall

if possible.
A. NICHOLSON.

Plumas,

Langham, Sask.

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ANOTHER PIONEER TALKS

Editor, Gutipge:—Your issue of the 9th
inst., page 10, brings to the notice of the
world Mr. John Campbell, of Lloyd-
minster, a young gentleman of prepossess-
ing exterior, in correct evening dress,
and likewise a prettily written article
by him under the title ‘“‘The Pioneer’s
Struggle,’ where he says among other
things, that some twenty years ago a
little colony from Ontario settled on the
shores of Beaver Lake, Alberta, and he
has been listening to some naive stories
concerning them. It appears that these
old settlers were strongly individualistic,
and not a bit co-operative, and that they
suffered terrible hardships in consequence;
they possesed herds of fat steers worth $40
a head, but they were unable to get
$5 for them; they hadn’t the means
of buying a sack.of flour and no one would
give them credit for so much; and there
is no saying how it would all have ended,
but in the nick of time a horde of 15,000
Ruthenians came along and saved them
from utter destruction. This legend
seems a little bit rough on those poor
twenty-year-ago pioneers. I was one
of them, though I didn’t come from On-
tario. We did have fat steers worth
$40 a head, and we used to get $40 a
head for them, right at the gate of our own
correl, a thing which we cannot do now.
I got as much as $54 for some of mine.
I never heard of any trouble in connection
with a sack of flour, and most of the
settlers enjoyed a reasonable credit
at Edmonton, some as much as $1,000
or $1,200, which very possibly wouldn’t
be as lightly proffered now. Hardships
we endured, certainly, but they were
inherent to the conditions of the country

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rather than to our own personal character-
istics, and we took these hardships in a
spirit of cheerfulness which would have
been greatly enhanced if the 15,000
Ruthenians had elected to remain in
Ruthenia. May I be permitted to add
as a passing remark, and in no spirit
of retaliation, that we also have listened
to naive stories dealing with the be-
ginnings of the Lloydminter settlement,
or the Barr colony as it was then called,
and the “green” Englishmen who adorned
it, and that the comparison does not seem
to present any features of which the
old Beaver Lakers need feel ashamed.
For one thing, they were far too indi-
vidualistic ever to put themselves in
leading strings to any reverend gentleman
and allow him the spending of their
money; and they were wise.

Hoping you will find a waste corner
for this little exchange of views,

Very sincerely yours,
HENRY DEBY.
Beaver Lake, Alta.

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AN ANSWER TO MR. SCHWARTS

Editor, Gurpr:—I noticed a letter in
Tue Guipe of February 16, written by
Robert Schwarts, of Warmley, Sask.,
concerning the price of a certain cream
separator, the name of which he with-
held, but from capacity and prices quoted
by him, I recognized the separator.
Mr. Schwarts quotes capacity and prices
as follows: 350 capacity $100.00; 450
capacity $115.00; and 550 capacity $130.
Now, I happen to possess a price list
of the different sized separators of this
company, and the prices run_ thus:
350-400 Ib. capacity, $95.00; 450-500
capacity, $110.00; 600-650 capacity,
$125.00. » Mr. Schwarts also states that
this same company gave to each of their
agents selling twelve separators during
the year 1909 a gold watch valued at
$100.00, This statement is also in error,
They did give a gold watch, but it was
valued at $25.00, and given for selling
twenty-five separators during 1909. He
goes on to say according to the prices
they are charging for their machines,
‘this is only a small matter but we
are certainly paying twice as much as
the separator is worth.”’ Now, one dollar
off each machine to make a man hustle
and sell, is a small matter, but why does
Mr. Schwarts take for a discussion a
machine which he knows to be the best
on the market? I have one of these
machines for my own use, and while
1 do admit that you may find a machine
that will skim as clean for a time, you can-
not beat this one for durability. It is no
complicated arrangement if the boxings
ever do wear. They can easily be re-
placed by any person at small cost. I
have yet to hear of one of these machines
being worn out. Another point Mr.
Schwarts forgot, and of which he is well
aware, is the fact that if your purchase
a size 1 separator, you can have it changed
to size 4 at any time without changing
the machine but by simply changing
the bowl and tinware, of which bowl
and all there are only seven pieces. My
machine is neither leveled or fastened
to the floor, and it separates perfectly,
the bowl being fastened top and bottom
never goes off the balance. More than
that, it is the only separator company I
know that guarantees to give satisfaction
or to refund the purchase price. Now,
farmers know that a good piece of
machinery, though it may be what we
call expensive at first, is the cheapest
in the end, and if a discussion of cream
separators is thought to be beneficial,
let us discuss the lower priced inferior
machines. I know a farmer who pur-
chased a low priced (just as good) cream
separator last summer, and is now look-
ing for a machine. Is it not the same
with every article purchased? We can-
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and wish you the greatest success.

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THE GRAIN GROWERS’

GUIDE

Page 16

World's Greatest Convention of Farmers

Beginning on Monday, May 2, at St. Louis, Mo., and lasting for Six
days a Monster. Gathering of Producers from all over America will be
held to weld the Farmers’ Organizations into a National Body. Secretary
McKenzie of Manitoba will represent the Grain Growers’ Grain Co.,
and will deliver an address on the Farmers Movement in Western

the farmers of
America awake to the
necessity of organiza-
tion?

The answer is’ the
stupendous — national
mass convention
planned to be held

Lan)
Ae

KGS ql mi in St. Louis, Mo,
be A aN commencing on Mon-
HN AIG) day May 2. .

There never was

another approaching it in size and scope—
that is, so far as the assembling together

of actual producers is concerned; and:

there has not been anything in a long
time which speaks so eloquently of the
swift emancipation of the farmer. His
day is at hand.

Up to last week.a total of one hundred
and three subsidiary organizaiions, repre-
senting hundreds of thousands of members,
had accepted invitations to be present,
and the convention will be held in the
great Coliseum, considered the best
convention hall in America, and capable
of seating comfortably some 20,000 people.
There will be a morning session of at least
one oration and one lecture. The after-
noon sessions will be from 1.30 to 5 o’clock,
and at those sessions will be three enter-
tuinting features, either of oration or
lecture with discussion of same: The
evening session will be from 8 o'clock
to 10 o’clock with at least two orations
or lectures,

The speakers and lecturers have been
engaged with care, and selected from the
best in their lines in the United States.
They include congressmen, senators, col-
lege professors, captains of finance,
promoters, doctors, ministers, judges,
editors, government officials, ete. The
partial program is as follows:

Hon. C. S. Barrett, president of the
Farmers’ Educational and Co-Operative
Union of America:—Subject, not an-
nounced.

Hon. C. O. Drayton, president Ameri-
can Society of Equity, Indianapolis, Ind.:
—‘A National Union of Farmers.”

Judge W. E. Monroe, Louisiana:—
“The call of the south.”

Hon. P. J. McCumber, United States
senator, North Dakota:—‘“‘ Justification
of Organization Among Farmers.”

Hon. Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor:—Subject
not yet announced:

Hon. J. C..Cantrill, member of congress
from Kentucky:—‘The Mission of the
American Society of Equity.”

Prof. J. H. Worst, Fargo, N.D.:—‘‘ The
Farmers’ Opportunity.”

Dr. J. Weller Long, educator, Madison,
Wis.:—‘‘ Educating the Farmer.”

Hon. A. O. Stanley, member of congress
from Kentucky :—‘* The Tobacco Situation
in Kentucky.”

Prof. T. <A. Hoverstad, educator,
Fargo, N.D.:—‘‘ Practical Education for
the Country Youth.”

Hon. A. M. Lawrence, editor, Chicago
Examiner:—Subject not given.

Hon. R. M. LaFollette, United States
senator, Wisconsin:—Subject not given.

Prof. M. H. Jackson, educator, Grand
Rapids, Wisconsin:—* Agriculture in Our
Schools.”

Hon. Thos. P. Gore, United States
senator, Oklahoma:—Subject not given.

Hon. C. A. Windle, educator, Chicago,
Ill.:—‘* Industrial Strength of the Farmer.”

Col. John Temple Graves, editorial
writer, Hearst newspapers:—Subject not
given.

Hon. Thomas Watson, editor, Watson’s
Magazine, Georgia:— The Agricultural
South and West Must Throw off the
Shackles of New England.”

Hon. Gifford Pinchot, Washington,
D.C.:—‘‘ Conservation of Natural Re-
sources.”

Col. Ed. R..Cone,- commissioner of
agriculture, Austin, Texas:—‘* The South’s
Piste in History.”

Hon. Frederick H. Kreisman, mayor
of the city of St. Louis:—Address of wel-
come.

Hon. Ed. L. Norris, governor of Mon-
tana:—‘‘Address by Representative.”

J. T. Tuchy, L.L.D., St. Louis, Mo.:—
“Illustrated Lecture on Co-operation
in Great Britain and Denmark.”

Canada.

Over 100 organizations have accepted an invitation to attend.

Addresses will be given by some of the most prominent men in

America.
to'attend.

Full Details of Program.

Farmers everywhere are invited

Grain Growers Will be Represented

Mr. R. McKenzie, secretary of the
Manitoba Grain Growers’ Association,
will tell the great convention something
of the farmers’ movement in this country,
and what has been accomplished in the last
decade. Mr. McKenzie goes to the con-
vention primarily to represent the Grain
Growers’ Grain Company, in response
to an urgent invitation forwarded to
that organization. This invitation which
was received only a few days ago, from
the editor of the Equity Farm Journal,
reads as follows:

Indianapolis, Ind., April 9.
Mr. T. A. Crerar, President G.G.G. Co.,
Winnipeg, Man.

Dear Sir:—We are about to hold what
will probably be the largest convention
of farmers ever held in the world at St.
Louis, Mo., during the first week of May
next. We are inviting organized labor
to participate, and we are making every
effort to get men with progressive ideas,
and men who have done things to make
up the program. I have noted with
interest in a limited way what the Grain

SS

The Opportunity of the Age
: March 18, 1910.
To all Members and Officers of the
American Society of Equity

The Farmers’ Educational Co-Opera-
tive Union of America, an organization
of farmers embracing the southern States
on practically the same plan as the Ameri-
can Society of Equity covers the northern
States, are arranging for the first and most
gigantic national mass convention of
productive workers ever held in the world.
Farmers and laborers of all kinds, clerks
in stores and offices, workers in mines,
factories and forests, mechanics, ete.,
are all invited to join in this convention.
It will be assembled one entire week at
St. Louis, Mo., May 2nd to 8th, with
three sessions every day.

A special invitation has been extended
to the American Society of Equity to
meet with the Co-Operative Union in
joint conference for the purpose of
considering a plan for a closer union.

Believing this to be the opportunity
of the age for American productive
producers and consumers, to begin a

Seeding on Farm of W. H. Norris, Gilbert Plains

Growers of Canada have done, and we
are anxious to have the St. Louis con-
vention know all about it. Therefore
on behalf of the American Society of
Equity I beg to extend you an invitation
to take part in our St. Louis convention,
as one of the numbers on the program.

Hoping that you can make it possible
for yourself to be there, and that I may
meet you on that occasion,

Yours truly,
THOS. G. NELSON.

This world’s greatest convention of
producers will take the form of a joint
assembly of The Farmers’ Educational
and Co-Operative Union of America,
the American Society of Equity, the
American Federation of Labor, and one
hundred and three subsidiary organiza-
tions, The former body invited the latter
organizations to join with it in calling
the convention. The board of directors
of the National Union American Society
of Equity were in session in Indianapolis
March 15, 16 and 17. During this time
Mr. John O’Grady, convention manager
for the Farmers’ Union, appeared before
the board to present the invitation of

the organization he represented to the -

A.S. of E. Replying to the invitation,
the board of directors prepared and au-
Li tong for publication the following
eltter: :

movement that will not only check the
recently prevailing tendency to get the
farmers and other classes of workers
further and further apart, but actually
tend to draw them closer and closer
together, we earnestly urge all local
unions to have at least one delegate
present so as to get a personal report
from the members of the meeting.

We also urge all members and officers
of the American Society of Equity
who can possibly do so to attend as
individuals, and to see that organizations
of farmers in their respective communities
are represented in this convention. We
further urge all farmers not belonging
to any organization to come. Let every
A.S. of E. member bring one non-member
with him.

American Society of Equity head-
quarters will be maintained at the Planters
Hotel during the convention. A hall will
be provided in which all members of the
A.S. of E. present may assemble from
time to time to discuss any matters of
importance to the society that may come

up.
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
National Union, A.S. of E.
By S. D. Kump, Sec.-Treas.
Prominence of the Farmer

Quoting from the call issued by: Presi-:

dent Barrett of the Farmers’ Union, we
have the following:

‘“‘At no time in the history of the
nation has the farmer been the object
of more solicitude to thoughtful public
men and to the public at large. From
congress, from every newspaper forum,
from every stump and rostrum and forum,
goes up the cry: ‘Back to the land!”’

Experts and conscientious students
of economics are warning us that unless
the lot of the farmer is improved, unless
more of his number are kept on the farm,
we shall shortly be depending upon foreign
nations for a portion of our food.

The farmer is the keystone of America’s
prosperity, the bulwark of its commercial
prestige abroad, the very heart-beat of
our future destiny at home and in the
fierce competition of civilization.

It is at this moment, when national
voices usually quiet, are clamoring for
more studious attention and tribute to
the farmer, when every factor in our
political and economic system regards
with misgiving and positive fear the
depopulation of the country and the
encroachment of industrial crisis and
chaos in the cities, that I invite the
members of the Farmers’ Union, the
farmers generally of America, to join
hands and brain and heart in a counsel
which shall thresh out issues close to the
life of the nation.

The Time is Propitious

The time is propitious, the necessity
is urgent, for closer and more fraternal
relations between the men upon whose
shoulders rests the present and the future
of America.

At bottom our interests are identical.
At bottom our interests are the interests
of every man, woman and child born
in America now living or yet to be born.

Proper co-operation will make this
conference the most momentous and
constructive of its kind in the country’s
history. ;

With the increased cost of - living
creating a white heat agitation in which
all classes of people in this country are
taking part, and a promise of the con-
vention managers at St. Louis that the
captains of finance and the promoters
and managers of industry are to be heard
on the program, it is safe to say that no
convention of as great importance to the
people of, this country has ever been
held in the history of the United States.
For once the people of this country will
assemble in a great national mass con-
vention to discuss the issues of the day
under auspices entirely free from partisan
politics.

Back to the Land

The slogan of the convention will be,
‘Back to the Land!” Pause a moment
and try to coniprehend, if you can,
what this slogan means. A general
exodus from the cities to the country,
or, in other words, the picking up bodily,
as it were, of the large cities with their
people, their industries and enterprises
and shaking them to pieces—scattering
them out over larger areas of country—
means a movement that will affect every
occupation, ‘enterprise and industry in
the United States. Therefore, it is reason-
able to expect that on this account alone
the attendance at this convention will
be enormous. NINETY-SEVEN SUB-
SIDIARY ORGANIZATIONS HAVE
ALREADY ACCEPTED THE INVI-
TATION TO BE PRESENT AT THIS
CONVENTION.

Co-operative Marketing and Purchasing

Business sessions of the Farmers’
Union and the American Society of
Equity pertaining to the administration
and working questions of the respective
organizations will be private, and. all
A. 5S. of E, members registering at the
Society headquarters in the Planters’:
Hotel will be notified of all such meetings
of the American Society of Equity that
may take place. When giving your name
for registration, be sure to state the hotel
at which a messenger boy or a letter may
reach you'in the city where you will
attend the convention,

A joint conference will take place be-
tween the executive committees of the
Farmers’ Educational Co-operative Union
and the American Society of Equity for
the following purpose:

1, Agreeing upon some harmonious

working basis for the extension of the
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THE

GRAIN

GROWERS’

GUIDE

This Section of The Guide is conducted officially for the United Farmers of Alberta by

Private versus Government Control
Of Chilled Meat Trade

Private Company Solicits Support of United Farmers for Chilled Meat
Proposition. A Review of Previous Investigations and Conclusions.

Urgent Need of Action.

Secretary Fream favors

Government Ownership

ceived from .Mr. E. G. Palmer,

secretary, Meat Exports, Ltd.,

dealing with a scheme concerning
the proposed chilled meat trade which is
now on foot.

Mr. Palmer requests that his letter
be published in Tue Gurpx, but this is
a matter in which the farmers, of Alberta
especially, are strongly interested in,
and it is thought advisable to hold the
letter at present, as no information has
as yet been secured as to the officers of
the company when the company was
incorporated and such other matter of

a business nature which should be known.

In Alberta this matter has been before
the public for some time; in fact in 1908
a committee of five was appointed to
investigate the whole question. This
committee prepared a very complete
report and the thanks of the committee
(of which the writer was a member)
is certainly due Mr. Palmer for all the
assistance given by him at that time.

The Committee dealt with the necessity
of providing a stable and remunerative
market, the failure of existing methods
to achieve the desired results, the methods
adopted by other meat producing countries
for disposing of their surplus, encouraging
the industry and some of the results of
those methods, and examination as to
how far the system and methods of other
countries can with advantage be applied
to Canada. Recommendations for adop-
tion in this country. Approximate cost
of establishing a thoroughly organized
system of meat chilling, etc., through-
out the Deminion; and the benefits to
the producer and country generally.

It was soon shown that there was
strong necessity for improving the posi-
tion of the stock-raising industry and the
need of a market, this being emphasized
more by the evidence taken by the beef
commission, a few years ago, than any-
thing else. It was ascertained too that
the present system of marketing is very
wasteful, and the objections to same were
many; the live stock trade being subject
to too many fluctuations and also being
subject to the possibility of the doors of
the great meat consuming countries being
closed against us through reported dis-
eases.

Canadian System Out-Of-Date

It was ascertained also that the ad-
vantages of chilling were many and that
practically all other meat exporting
countries, except Canada, were devoting
their energies more and more to the chilled
meat side of the business; in fact, in a
bulletin issued by the United States
Department of Agriculture in. 1905,
dealing with this question, the following
words were used: ‘Argentina now favors
the export of the product of her pastures
in the form of meat and meat products
rather than as live animals.”

It is needless to go over all the details
which will simply emphasize the necessity
of this project. All the farmers’ asso-
ciations of the west have endorsed the
idea of the chilled meat project, and the
only stumbling block now is in the matter
of finances.

A proposition was presented to the
Minister of Agriculture and was turned
down as being too vast for the present
requirements of the country, and an
amended proposition presented. Both
these propositions, however, were such
that the majority of the farmers of the
western provinces would not be in favor
of them. They called for a proportion
of capital to be subscribed by a company
and the balance to be subscribed by the
farmers or patrons. The voting power
given was such that the bond-holders or

A COMMUNICATION has been re-

capitalists who put up the first amount
of money would have full control of the
company.

It is true that provision was made for
the live stock commissioner of the Domin-
ion to be on the board of directors, and
the Dominion minister of agriculture to
act as chairman of the board, if possible;
but this would not give these officers any
voting power, and it would mean that
the control would be entirely in the hands
of the capitalists, and if such a scheme
as outlined was adopted, it would: mean
the formation of another gigantic mono-
poly.

To Safeguard the Producer

It is true also that provision was made
for the government to purchase the in-
terests of the capitalists at any time,
but if this was done, why not arrange
from the first for the money to be provided
by the government and the interest of
the farmer as well as the consumer
thoroughly safeguarded for all time.

with this matter.

enthusiastic.

from the conference.
date.

in the district.
lubrication.

will produce 190 lbs. of flour.

As a member of this committee, I
have given this proposition considerable
thought, and although when first glancing
over the financing proposition it appealed

to me as a good one, still the more I
have studied it the more I am convinced
that it is not to the interests of the farmers
to endorse such a scheme.

I am strongly in favor of, and believe
there is the greatest need of a chilled meat
project for the west, but believe that
when. this comes it should be from the
start under the control of the Dominion
government, and therefore there is. no
need for any company to be established
to take up this matter.

In Alberta we are striving for all we
are worth for a pork packing plant,
which will be under government control;
and it would not be consistent on our
part to emphasize or assist in any wa
in the formation of a company whic
must necessarily be opposed to the in-

Edward J. Fream, Secretary, Innisfail, Alta.

THE WESTERN CONVENTION

Arrangements for the western convention are growing apace, and the answers
received from the different boards of trade, agricultural societies, etc., are most
It is expected that the convention will be a large and representa-
tive one, both provinces being largely represented, and we look for good results
The time of the convention will be announced at an early

in England, which should answer this purpose.
miller to operate it and it will run all day without attention except for occasional
It is stated that the flour produced is of first quality and it has been
ascertained that when working on hard Canadian wheats imported into England
the capacity of the mill is as high as 270 lbs. of wheat per hour, from which it
It is claimed that the invention of this mill has |
for the first time in the history of milling brought the latest type of roller flour
mill within the reach of farmers and small millers.
price, etc., and if those who were enquiring about this matter will write me
I shall be pleased to give them the necessary information.

terests of the producers, and I therefore
have come to the conclusion that the time
has now come when we must be prepared
to state definitely whether we wish the
chilled meat project under the control
of the government or in the hands of a
private company.

I place these facts before the members
and would ask them to discuss same at
an early opportunity, but would say,
finally, that I stand strongly for the
government ownership and am against
the guaranteeing of bonds for any company

EDWARD J. FREAM.
wm wm

PUT YOUR SHOULDERS TO THE
WHEEL

Under the heading, ‘‘Push Along the
Pork Contracts,” will be found a resolu-
tion unanimously adopted by Tofield
Union.

This resolution is one which covers
much ground, but at the same time is
such that should apply to all the members
of the U.F.A.

The rejection of the principle of co-
operation as laid down in. the report of
the pork commission and in the draft
agreement which has been submitted
by the government to the farmers for
signature would strike at one of the most
vital points of the U.F.A., for if the guar-
antee is not forthcoming in this case it
will mean that we shall be quoted
the length and breadth of the country
as failures, and as inconsistent in our
demands.

THE LABOR QUESTION

In the effort to assist in solving the labor problem on the Alberta farms
it was decided to organize a labor bureau in connection with the central office
of the U.F.A., and a short time ago blanks were sent to all the unions dealing

Although at the time of writing these lists have not been in the hands of
the unions for more than one week, already applications have been received for
seven men and two women to work on farms, the wages quoted being from
$30.00 to $40.00 per month for the men and $25.00 per month for women.
will give some idea of the scarcity of labor in the province at the present time.

This

A USEFUL FLOUR MILL

Several of the unions of the U.F.A. have made enquiries recently as to the
possibility of securing a flour mill of sufficient capacity to meet the needs of
the district and yet cheap enough to enable same to be erected by a few farmers
I have just received particulars of a roller mill, manufactured

It does not require a skilled

I have full particulars and

EDWARD J. FREAM.

Some unions are taking this matter
up in the right spirit and are securing
their full share of contracts, while others
are indifferent and do not care whether
the scheme is successful or not.

It is true that one section of the country
does not desire this plant, but they are
close to a good market, where they can
always dispose of their produce; but this
does not apply to the main portions of
the country, and there is no doubt that
the co-operation as provided for in this
proposition will mean many dollars in
the hands of the farmers during the year.

I appeal to all members to read the
Tofield resolution very carefully, and if
they can in any way assist in the project,
would ask them kindly to do so, I have
a large supply of contract forms on hand,
and shall be pleased to forward same to
secretaries or members at any time.
So far the majority of the: contracts
completed have been sent in direct to

April uth, 1910

UNITED FARMERS OF ALBERTA

PRESIDENT:
JAMES"BOWER ?- - Rev Derr
2 WF PP Vice-Presipent:
WlIETREGILLUS -. -

SEcRETARY-TREASURER:
E. J. FREAM - - - Innisfail

Directors at Larae:

James Speakman, Penhold; D. W.
Warner, Clover Bar; L. H. Jelliff,
Spring Coulee.

CALGARY

District Drrectrors:

T. H. Balaam, Vegreville; George
Long, Namao; fF. H. Langston,
Rosenroll; E Carswell, Penhold;
J. Quinsey, Barons; FE. Greisbach,
Gleichen ;_ A. Von Mieleicki, Calgary.

LALLA TTS eeeeRneteeessnteesashseesnnatnnutatcianete

the live stock commissioner, but four
unions—Agricola, Beleamp, Pleasant Val-
ley and Gleichen—have forwarded signed
contracts to me and in each case requested
a further supply. of contract forms.
This is the goal to lead up to. It does
not require very much—an average of
only ten for each member will provide
the guarantee. But before signing the
contract, even if you are tempted to sign
for the mere ten, I would suggest to you
that you consider the advisability of
increasing this to at least twenty-five.
It will be, comparatively speaking, no
harder to provide twenty-five than the

ten.
EDWARD J. FREAM.
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A GOOD SUGGESTION

At the regular monthly meeting of
Stettler Union held on April 1, the fol-
lowing resolution was unanimously car-
ried :—

“That, in view of the valuable time
that is being lost in dealing with the hail
insurance question and the difficulty
experienced in bringing about an unanimi-
ty of opinion amongst the various unions
it is felt that unless some definite move
is made quickly this all important matter
will drag on indefinitely. Therefore, be
it resolved, that in the opinion of. the
Stettler Union all unions should be asked
to at once adopt a resolution, to leave
the framing of a suitable measure based
as far as possible on the resolutions
that have already been received from the
different unions in the hands of the
directors of the central organization.

H. A. STEELE, Secretary.
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LAC ST. VINCENT ORGANIZES

A meeting of the farmers of Lac St.
Vincent district was held on April 2, to
consider the advisability of organizing
a union of the U.F.A. Mr. Dan Fay
was voted to the chair and twenty-three
people voted in favor of the proposition,
though only ten paid their fee at the time.

It was moved by A. A. Emery and
seconded by A. Scott: “That John B.
Green be elected president.” This was
unanimously adopted, and the president
thanked the members for the honor
they had conferred on him in a very able
speech.

On motion of Messrs. Bertrand and
Green, Mr. W. E. Fay was unanimously
elected vice-president.

On motion of Messrs. Green and Scott,
Mr. J. E. Bertrand was unanimously
appointed secretary-treasurer.

The meeting then adjourned till Satur-
day, April 23rd next, at 7 p.m.

J. E, BERTRAND, Sec.

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WILL FORM COW-TESTING
ASSOCIATION

Alix Union held its regular meeting
on March 26, with Col. Marryat in the
chair. Among other business it was
decided to write the live stock commission-
er and ask him to give an address in Alix
on the pork packing proposition. A
committee was appointed to interview
farmers interested in dairying, with a
view to forming a herd testing association.
» A resolution was. passed expressing
approval of consolidated , schools, and
recommending to the Central committee
that in view of such ‘schools having
proved successful in other parts of Cunada

-they should urge the provincial govern-

ment to grant powers to any district
to carry on such schools.

April 20th, 1910

Push Along the Pork Contract

At the last regular meeting of the
Tofield Union the following resolution
was. unanimously -adopted:

Whereas, in view of the fact that the
organized farmers of the province of
Alberta have been petitioning the provincial
government for some years past to induce
them to establish a government pork
packing plant in the interests of the
farmer who raises hogs and the people
who purchase the cured article.

And, whereas, the government have now
consented to undertake the enterprise
if a sufficient number of hogs can be
secured, and have accordingly ap-
pointed men to canvass the country
and secure patrons for the plant, but from
reports received it seems that the farmers
are somewhat reluctant in signing the
agreements and so far the work has not
been as satisfactory as was anticipated,
which portends, to say the least, in the
possibility of this project falling through,
which, should such occur, would be. a
hard blow to the farmers’ association
that would take years to live down and
regain the prestige lost by such an oc-
currence.

Therefore, be it resolved by the mem-
bers of Tofield Local Union of the U. F. A.,
that every union in the association be
asked to bestir itself in this undertaking
and pledge itself to spare neither time
nor expense until it secures enough sig-
natures which will amount to at least
ten hogs to each member in that local.

Also, be it resolved, that this local
canvass the country until at least ten hogs
to each member is secured for the govern-
ment plant. That is to say at least 400
hogs, as there are 40 members in the
Tofield local.

And, be it further resolved, that this
resolution be printed verbatim in Tue
GuipeE in an early issue of that paper
and that the secretary of the central
association be asked to send a copy of
Tue Gurve in which this resolution is
published to each local of the U. F. A.

And, further, be it resolved, that each
local shall report to the secretary of the
Association from time to time as to how
it is progressing in the work of securing
patrons for the government plant, so
that the secretary may have the number
of hogs secured inserted in Tur Guinn.

In presenting this resolution to your
notice I feel assured that if the wishes
contained therein are carried out we shall
have no difficulty in securing the stipu-
lated number of hogs for the government
plant. That binding clause in the agree-
ment seems to turn a mole hill into a
mountain and stops many farmers from
signing same. I maintain that once the
plant is established the binding clause
will be the bulwark of this co-operative
enterprise, against which the competitors
of the plant will be powerless.

JAMES FLETCHER, Secretary.
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CLARKEVILLE PROGRESSING

A meeting of Clarkeville Union was held
on March 28, all members and officers,
with the exception of the president, being
present.

The vice-president took the chair and
it was decided to have a regular meeting
on the last Monday of ‘each month.
Two new members were enrolled.

A number of farmers in the district
report having commenced work on the
land and everything favors a prosperous

season.
SYDNEY C. JONES, Sec.
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A SUCCESSFUL FIELD DAY

On April Ist the members of Keho
Union had a very successful field day
among the gophers, the result being that
a large number of these little pests met
their Waterloo. At the close of the day’s
work the ladies provided a most excellent
supper and nearly 200 sat down and did
full justice to the fare provided. After
supper a good program was rendered
and thoroughly enjoyed, after which
the crowd tripped the light fantastic
toe till the wee sma’ hours.

The following prizes were awarded for
proficiency during the day:

For the largest number of gopher tails
caught by a member: Gold mounted
fountain pen, won by P. Hoptyson.

Prizes won by the children: — First,
boy’s watch, won by Glen Jenks. Second,
book, The Foreigner, won by Peter Di
Cook. Third, book, A Tale of Two
Cities, won by Willie George.

THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE

We are desirous of securing information
as to the formation of a stock market.
We want to establish a market where we
can dispose of fat stock, and sell all kinds
of stock to.each other.

WM. ISAAC, Secretary.
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RECOMMEND MANITOBA’S PLAN

At a well attended meeting of Macleod
Union held recently the following reso-
lution was passed almost unanimously :—

“That the provincial government levy
a tax on all taxable lands in Alberta at
the rate of one dollar per quarter section
for the purpose of financing a system of
government hail insurance. The max-
imum indemnity to be six dollars per
acre.

A resolution was also passed suggesting
that the elevator committee follow, as
near as practicable, the system adopted
iy the Manitoba Grain Growers’ Associa-
ion.

We are asking Mr. W. F. Stevens,
Live Stock Commissioner, to address
the farmer of this community on the
Pork Packing Contract at an early date,
also for Mr. W. J. Tregillus to assist us
in organization work.

W. J. GLASS, Secretary.
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FALL WHEAT LOOKS FINE

The Heather Brae Union wishes to
report that the third meeting, held on
April 1st, was not quite so successful as
the others, on account of the members
being busy seeding,: but those present
took an active part in all the discussions.
The crop prospects in this district are
good and the winter wheat has come
through the winter in fine style and now
is in good shape.

There was considerable talk on, the pork
packing proposition, but the members
not being very well posted on the subject
it was decided that it would be better
to drop the matter until the live stock
commissioner can visit the union.

The president explained the necessity
of the members subscribing to Tue
GuipE, pointing out the value of such a
paper in the homes, and showing how it
would keep the members in touch with
the Central Association. Seven sub-
scriptions were received and forwarded.

At the close of the meeting the young
fellows were not slow in clearing out the
seats,.and a jolly good dance took place
in which old as well as young people
participated. There was no_ thought
of trusts and combines as we went
whirling through that first waltz, and the
feet kept time to the music furnished by
Miss Daisy Smith till the ladies announced
supper. This proved to be an excellent
repast and when everyone was satisfied
the dancing was resumed until two o’clock,
when Home Sweet Home was the sound
and the adjournment came with everyone
wishing and hoping that we will meet
soon again and have just another such fine
time as this one.

E. B. OLSON, Secretary.
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SPECIAL MEETING HELD

A special meeting of Huxley Union
was held on April 4th to consider the hail
insurance and other questions. After
considerable discussion it was unani-
mously decided to support the motion
presented by Valley District Union.
The pork packing proposition then came
up for discussion and the signing of the
contracts was dropped until further in-
formation could be secured. Mr. Nels
Anderson was admitted as a member of
the union.

A letter from the warden of the King-
ston Penitentiary in reference to binder
twine was read but it was thought to
be too early in the season to deal with this
matter, so it was laid on the table for the
next meeting.

W. H. KENNEDY, Secretary.
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NOT ACQUAINTED WITH DR. COOK

The first regular meeting .of Cooke
Union was held in the Haultain School
on March 26, and four new members were
enrolled. We expect to have a good
strong union, and don’t think, Mr.
Editor, it is going to fall because it is
named after Dr. Cook, the great North
Pole.fakir. With such men at the helm
as E. W. Keeler and C. A. Johnson
we are bound to succeed. A hearty vote
of thanks was accorded to Mr. G. H.
Manser, of Lewisville, who so ably filled
the chair at our organization meeting.

J. N. FRANKLIN, Secretary, |

RURAL TELEPHONES NEEDED

At the meeting of Prairie Centre
Union held recently the members passed
a resolution favoring the agreement re
the pore packing plant,

The rural telephone question was dis-
cussed with the result that R. J. Lincoln
was appointed a committee to investigate
the practicability of establishing a rural
telephone system to be owned and con-
trolled by the farmers of Erskine and
vicinity, from Erskine south.

The co-operative question was up for
discussion by previous arrangement. It
was ably handled by the members of the
union and while no definite results were
arrived at the members were in full accord
with the co-operative spirit and heartily
in favor of organizing an association that
will handle everything the farmer has
to buy, as well as what he has to sell.

G. W. LOHR, Secretary.

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MILLET ORGANIZED

A meeting of the farmers of the Millet
district was called on April 9th by Mr.
T. K. Rogne to consider the advisability
of organizing a union of the U. F. A.
After some discussion it was decided
to proceed with the organization, and ten
members joined the union, the first
officers elected being: T. K. Rogne,
president, and Robert C. Young, secretary-
treasurer.

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BOTHA DISTRICT HEARD FROM

The Blue Ridge Union of the U. F. A.
recently met for re-organization purposes,
when it was decided to change the name
to Botha, this being the name of the new
town on the Lacombe branch of the C.
P. R., and it is expected that the member-
ship of this union will be at least 100 by
the end of the year. Tenders have been
called for 60,000 pounds of binder twine
and will be opened at the next meeting
of the union. We would like to arrange
with the Gadsby and Castor Unions
for a visit from some official from the
Central Association at an early date,
so that the workings of the U. F. A.
can be fully explained.

W. F. EYESTONE Secretary.
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A RECORD OF PROGRESS

Trenville Union No. 180 held its regular
meeting on April Ist, with President
Greene in the chair, there being 14 mem-
bers and 15 visitors present.

After the minutes had been disposed of
applications for membership were re-
ceived and eight new names were added
to the roll.

Mr. R. Greenwood reported that he
was authorized to take up subscriptions
on behalf of Mr. Delaine, a young home-
steader south of Trenville, who with his
wife and family had lost everything they
possessed through the ravages of a prairie
fire which passed through the Trenville
district on March 30. Several members
donated money, some donated grain, etc.,
and a full list will be sent next week of
those who donated to this fund.

Among the visitors present was Mr.
Reinach, of Trochu creamery, and also
the buttermaker from that creamery,
Mr. Snip. They addressed the meeting
and gave a synopsis of the method under
which the creamery at Trochu was oper-
ated, and asked for the patronage of the
farmers of the Trenville district.

Mr. Wilton, president of the government
creamery at Content, who was accompan-
ied by Mr. Streich and Mr. Norton, of
Content, also ably addressed the meeting
on behalf of the Content creamery
and urged the Trenville patrons to stand
by the government creamery. He guar-
anteed to give his personal attention
to any complaints the patrons might make
at any time. Mr. Wilton was ably
assisted by his confreres, who stated in
particular that the farmers should help
the government creamery provided it
gave them satisfaction. A hearty vote

of thanks was tendered the speakers-

for their excellent addresses.

I am very pleased to report the enthu-
siasm being displayed here on behalf of
the U. F. A., which is apparent from the
growth of this union. We shall be glad,
however, to receive a visit from some of
the officers of the‘association, if they will
let us know when to expect them.

“We now have a membership of thirty-

four.
THOS. LAVER, Secretary:

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SOMETHING ABOUT HAIL
INSURANCE

As the first of April is now past the
various hail insurance resolutions will
have been tabulated ere this and I do hope
that the executive will be able to give
the law makers of the province, seeing
that they are not meeting till the last of
May, a trial and ascertain if they really
are in earnest: with the bread’ winners
of our fair land, or if as of old they are
just fooling. I hope we have called the
bluff and that they will now come out
and do business.

I am very sorry indeed that the movers
of the different resolutions offered at our
convention were not given a chance

and some time to explain their resolutions

to the convention, as we could no-doubt
have understood each other better after
such a discussion. I have deferred
saying anything on the subject sooner
because we voted to send all the resolu-
tio1s back to the unions for the members
to decide as they saw fit, the one receiving
the most votes to be put forward by the
legislative committee, The time is up.
the verdict is passed, and what result
will follow? ’

As president of the union presenting
resolution No. 7, I wish to publicly thank
you, one and all, whether we have won
or lost. We think it better to run and
try than to stand still and die, and we
thought we had a resolution which was
practical, consistent and fair ‘to all
concerned.

First, in the hail losses we must protect
the country, as any country is just as
the people living in such a country make
it. We can’t hope or expect to raise
above our aspirations. If we never
aspire we will never realize. T say.
united we stand, divided we fall. In’
the blanket tax proposed by us for
indemnity for hail losres and gopher
poison the farmers are protected; by the
bounty on coyotes the rancher is pro-
tected; and by the proposed little bit
of the town lots we will see if the town
people wish. and want the country they
live in to prosper or go down. We meant
to show that we were not beggars and
were willing to pay our own bills, so re-
quested the blanket tax on every acre of
rateable land and on every town lot.

Stand by it, boys, and make them
show their hands. Get in the game and
join the procession, for the U.F.A. is a
winner at every turn of the game, and
we are always prepared to call any bluff,
so long as we have such men as at present
to lead our forces to victory.

JAMES MINER.
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APPROVES CONTRACT

A meeting of Lakeford Union was held
on Saturday, April 9, when Mr. D. W.
Warner addressed the meeting on the
proposed pork packing plant. Mr. Warn-
er addressed the meeting in a very good
manner and instilled some knowledge
and enthusiasm into the members and
secured several contracts. A committee,
consisting of Messrs. M. Maxwell, A.
Greep, R. Carter, J. Monteith and R.
Adams, was appointed to secure as many
patrons as possible, and their energies
will be devoted to this object,

ALFRED GREEP, Sec.
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A SUCCESSFUL MEETING

Mr. D. W. Warner held a successful
meeting at Glen Park school house on
March 29. He cleared up several
points about which a good many. of us
have been in doubt, and I am sure that
his visit will result in a hearty support of
the pork packing proposition in this
district.

O. A. BROUGHTON, Secretary.

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INFORMATION WANTED

At the meeting of Summerview Union
held recently, I was requested to secure
information as to prices and markets for
our farm produce, butter, eggs, etc.,
in the neighboring mountain towns.
I shall be pleased to receive the names of
any companies or persons who are anxious
of obtaining fresh produce direct from the
farmers. The members complain of the
extremely poor prices now secured for
these articles and think it is possible
to do better by dealing direct. Summer-
view is situated near Pincher Station,
on the Crows Nest line of the C. P. R.

FRANK S. RITCHIE, Secretary.

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WANT, SALE AND EXCHANGE

All advertisements under this heading will) be
charged for at the rate of @c. per word per inser-
tion: six insertions given for the price of hve.

This department will be made a special feature
of Tue Guipe from now on, and is designed to
better serve the interests of our subscribers by
furnishing space where they may. make known
their wants and get in touch with prospective
buyers at a nominal cost. Under this heading
will be inserted all miscellaneous advertising, such
as Farms for Sale, or Wanted, Machinery, Help
Wanted, Articles Wanted and For Sale, Auction
Sales, etc. :

In this column, as in every part of Tun Gurpe,
any. advertisements of a fake or questionable
character will not be accepted, but the space will
be contined exclusively to the use of legitimate
advertisers who seek help, or wish to buy, sell or
exchange Stock, Machinery, etc. A condensed
advertisement in Tus Grain Grownrs’ Guipe
should be a business getter for you. ‘Try it and
be convinced.

FOR SALE, Lady’s “CLEVELAND” BICYCLE,
in perfect order; used one year.-——For particulars
wrile Airs, Juck Jobuson, Starbuck, Man, 87V.

PLYMOUTH ROCKS AND BUFF WYAN-
\ dottes; 14 years a breeder; eggs for sitting
$1.50 for 18, A liberal discount for quantities
T. W. Knowles, Emerson, Man. 35
FOR SALE, REGISTERED SHOKTHORNS —
* Shorthern dairy cows at $50 to $75 euch, young
bulls at $35 to $70; grade cows and stockers
Bousfield,
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supphed — remarkabl cheap.—d.
Orchard Farm, Mactiisnnr, Ma
WANTED, AT ONCE, A CARTOONIST, ONE
capable of making first-class newspaper car-
toons and illustrations, and also of doing coler
_work. Applicants should send samples of
their work to The Grain Growers’ Guide,
Winnipeg. Man. $5 *
NATIVE SPRUCE TREES FOR SALE~—AVER-
age size 15 inches; $1 per. dozen or $7 per
hundred, prepaid. Thos. Fry, Canora, cua)

FOR SALE-—-EGGS FOR HATCHING, FROM
pure bred $.C, Brown Leghorns, $1.00 per set-
ting. — William Denoon, Birnie, Man. $40,

FOR SALE — ABUNDANCE SEED OATS

town from Garton Seed, cleaned and bagged
2.00 a ewt. f.0.b. -Girvin. — Hazellon Bros.,
Girvin, Sask. 84°

- THOROUGHBRED BARRED PLYMOUTH
Rock Eggs; $1.00 for thirteen or 85.00 for, hun-
dred. —Uenty Woodcock, Clanwilliam, Man, 84a

Seed,
hiked gt ene cota ee
WANTED, TENDERS FOR BINDER TWINE
in car lots, by Zelma Grain Growers’ Association,
Address, A. H. Cline, See.-Treas., Zelma, Sack.

4 S4H

FOR SALE, TWO YOUNG PURE BRED
Shorthorn Bulls, cheap; good pedigree.—Apply
to James A. Milchell, Radisson, Sask, 834A
FALL WHEAT FOR: SALE, 500 BUSHELS,
Kansas Turkey Red, for seed, absolutely clean,

Price 81,25 per bushel, sacks extra. A, L. Ash-
down, Swan River, Man,
ROSE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS, THE

regular egg machines. Eggs for sale from prize
mioaing sine, $1.50 per 15; $6 per 100,—W. C.
Bruce, Valley, Sask. 87r
SOUTH AFRICAN WARRANTS FOR SALE,
Clese prices,. prompt delivery.—T, D Thomp-
gon & Co., 42 Merchants Bank, Winnipeg. 86H
I HAVE A NUMBER OF SOUTH AFRICAN
Veterans’ Serip fer Sale cheap; write or wire
orders. I pay highest priees, spot cash.— W.
P. Redgers, 608 Melntyre Block, Winnipeg,
Man. : 86H
FOR SALE, TWO SECTIONS OF THE
finest wheat land in Canada, located near Hal-
brite in the famons Weyburn district. Harry
Pinks, Halbrite, Sask 36H
BUFF ORPINGTON EGGS, FROM‘ GOOD
laying strain; choice birds; pote but the best
colors kept; $1.50 per 13.—Neil Wilson, Heaslip,
_Man.; P.O. Orders payable at Minto.
A QUANTITY OF MENSURY BARLEY FOR
Seed, free from fowl weeds; price, in cotton bugs,
70c. per bushel, f.0.b. Keyes. —J. Stewart, Glad-
stone. — a 37E
FOR SALE, CEMENT BLOCK OUTFIT AND
business at Gilbert Plains: good location. H. A.
Meyer, Gilbert: Plains: 86v
JAS. CASWELL, SASKATOON.-SHORT-
horns. Barred Rock Eggs, $1.50. . Rye Grass

Seed, no noxious weeds. 86H

REPRESENT U

We want a lady or gentleman at every post office
to be agent for the only farm paper published,
owned and edited by the farmers. It is the only
official organ of the largest national buying and
marketing organization ‘of farmers, the American
Society of uity. . First applicants have choice
of Nersitony Sxceptional proposition to Solicitors
this month, Salary, commission and premiums.

Equity Farm Journal, Room 419, Indianapolis, Ind

The Outcome

A human man, seeing an overladen
horse, put his shoulder to the wheel;
and the owner of the horse thanked him—
but he loaded the horse more heavily
next time, knowing he would be helped.

A sympathetic man, seeing a boy drag
a loa Bt wud, helped him through the
street. The father of the boy felt grateful
to the man—but he told the boy he must
bring bigger loads in future.

“A. public-spirited man improved the
city, and the owners of the city lots passed
a resolution of thanks to him—but at |
raised the prices of the lots.—Bolton Hall.

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Modesty on the Bench

A certain prominent English jurist was
transferred from the chancery court. to
the admiralty court rather unexpectedly.
While conversant with English law. to a
surprising degree, this gentleman had
spent little time in marine law and was
rather dubious as to his ability to cope
with the duties of his new office.

His colleagues, in recognition of the
occasion, gave him a dinner, after which
he was called upon for an address. He
made a long and serious speech, which
embraced about everything, from free
trade to England’s foreign policy. Then,
pausing a moment, he-glanced round the
crowded room and said: :

“Gentlemen, in closing, I can think of
no better words than the lines of Tenny-
son:

“And my there be no moaning of the
ar
When I put out to sea.’

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Emergency Currency

The agitation for emergency currency
promises to become very popular, not
only because we all like currency but
because we all have emergencies. But
the particular kind of emergency currency
that has been advocated in some quarters
is not exactly what we want, for, by its
provisions, the bankers will have all the
currency while we shall still have our
emergencies,

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Crusty Uncle (who is weary of being
asked again and again for pecuniary
Why the dickens don’t
you go home to your father and get him
to kill the fatted calf?

Young Hard-Up: He’d be a jolly
sight more likely to kill the prodigal
son. :

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Same Old Story

“How shall I break the news to my
parents that I have failed in my exams?”

“Merely. telegraph them: ‘Examina-
tion over. Nothing new!’ ”

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By Installments

“Do you really, really care so very
much for me, darling?” she asked.

“‘Dud—dud—does a—dud—dud—dud
—duck—cuc—cuc—care for water, Sus—
sweet? Indeed, I dud—-dud—do, ,dud—
dud—darling! You are the one pup—
pup—priceless pup—pup—pearl among
pup—pup—pearls, pup—pup—Polly! You
are’ que—que—queen of my heart, dud—
dud—darling! The pup—pup—power
that bub—bub—bends me like a reed—
at thy fuf—fuf—feet!”

And she apparently believed him.

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Jack Says

That economy is the word used by
our neighbor with reference to his stingi-
ness.

That a wise woman will choose the
“slow coach” in preference to the. fast
male.

That the woman who named her son
Romeo did a quite unnecessary thing.

That a fool and his advice are soon
parted. 2 ;

That some one should urge the gossips
to organize in favor of shorter hours.

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Howard: She has a speed of one
hundred words a minute.
Coward: Who? Your stenographer?
Howard: No; my wife. ‘ :

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: Proper Spirit. i

“Do. you really think it necessary
to give Mrs. Bigwad. anything on her
birthday?” ;

“Yes, Harold, .we. really must. She
remembered ull our children at Christ-
mas, and now the least we can do is to
retaliate.”’—Puck. —

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ROWERS’ GUIDE

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Which Being Interpreted
Joseph was interpreting the dream of
seven lean and seven fat kine.
“Tt means that the beef trust will
charge top prices for both,” he declared.
Herewith they saw he was a prophet.

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Didn’t Care to Mention His Name

A colored woman presented herself
the other day in an Equal Suffrage State
at the place of registration to qualify
for the casting of her vote upon the.
school question at the next election.

“With what political party do you
affiliate?” inquired the clerk of the un-
accustomed applicant, using the pre-
scribed formula.

The dusty lady “blushed,” all coyness
and confusion. ‘‘Is I ’bleeged to answer
that there question?”

“Certainly; the law requires it.”

“Then,” retreating in dismay, “I
don’t believe [’ll vote, ’case I’d hate to
have to mention the party’s name. He’s
one of the nicest gent-mums in town.”

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Commercially Expressed

The exigencies of the occasion com-
pelled the city ecitor to assign the young
financial reporter to write the account
of the ball. He was instructed to give
particular attention to a description. of
the costumes of ihe ladies. The following
excerpts from his report have been pre-
served:

“Miss Blimmers was the object of a
good deal of flurry at the opening of the
ball. Bidders were enthusiastic. She
wore a spangled dress and was con-
spicuous during the season at about
187, preferred.”

‘““Mrs. Marriem made her first appear-
ance since her last. divorce. She has
been resting at the springs, and the
reorganization sets her at par.”

“Miss Newwun, in a simple white
dress, was a tentative offering at the
start, but. within an hour jumped to 275.
There was at that time a great scramble,
but the lucky bidder who is said to have
been planning a squeeze, was Mr. Dash.”

“Miss Boldun wore a costume that was
40, 30 and 10 off.”

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Publicity Indeed

Every now and then publicity is ad-
vocated as a cure for some evil. No
greater mistake was ever made. Publicity
can do nothing. Take the traction
situation in the average city, for instance.
Everybody knows that the cars are un-
clean, that they are overcrowded, that
they are cold in winter and warm in sum-
mer, and that the owners of the lines are
rolling in wealth. There is publicity
for you. No secret about it at all.
We don’t have to wait for the newspapers
or magazines to come. out to learn the
situation. But publicity does nothing
whatsoever. It is as quiescent as a
southern policeman at a lynching.

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Natural Advantages

A few hours after the very elaborate
Christmas dinner little Marie was taken
violently ill, and her cousin Elizabeth,
who had been unhappy all day on account
of Marie’s prettier dress, was heard to
whisper in an awed vuice: ‘ Marie’s
got the prettiest clothes, all right, but
I’ve got the strongest stomach.”

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Ambiguous
Stella: I wouldn’t marry the best
man on earth. :
Knicker; Have I asked you to?
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“Edwin,” said a young wife, noticing
how heartily her husband was eating, “do

I cook as well as your mother did?” “Once .

for all, Angelina,” replied Edwin, ‘as he
stared at her through his monocle, “I beg
you will remember that, although
I may seem to be in reduced circumstances
now, I come of an old and distinguished
family. My mother was not a cook!”

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World Greatest Convention
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Continued from page 15

respective organizations in various sections
of the United States.

2. Discussing the advisability and pos-
sibility of consolidation of the two or-
ganizations.

3. The development of some means by
which the local unions of the respective
organizations can market their products
and purchase such supplies as they may
desire to buy collectively on a co-operative
basis.

“The convention will mark the begin-
ning of a new epoch in the history of
this country. It wil centre the attention
of the people so effectively upon our pres-
ent methods of distributing farm and
factory products that the whole system
will be changed in less time than nine-
tenths of the people of this country now
have any idea of.

The Doomsday Book

A large committee of the Farmers’
Union has been at Washington, D. C.,
during the present session of congress,
and will be kept there until the first of
May. This committee is compiling a

report in which the status of the legislation ~

demanded and needed by the American
farmer will be plainly set forth. The
reading of this report will be a feature
of the St. Louis convention, which will
attract more than usual interest. The
public press even now speaks of it as
the Doomsday Book, :

The program will be given to the public
press as rapidly as it is completed.

The public meetings will be held in the
new. Coliseum, which is considered the
best convention hall in the United States.
Twenty thousand people can be seated
comfortably in it. In addition to the
seating of the visitors there is in the Coli-
seum ample floor space for ‘exhibition
which will be used for exhibiting those
products of the farm and factory that will
interest thé visitors. The General Pas-
senger Agents’ Association is now con-
sidering a proposition to grant unusually
low return rates to all visitors to’ the con-
‘vention. es

The city of St. Louis can accommodate
with comfort 200,000 people. Notwith-
standing the enormous housing capacity,
those who are coming should write im-
mediately having reserved for them the
character of rooms that is desired, so
as not to be crowded when they do arrive.
Send the usual fifty per cent. to be deposi-
ted for your rooms.

This convention is invited to St.
Louis by the Convention Bureau, the
Governor of the State of Missouri, Mayor
of the city of St. Louis, the St. Louis
Business Men’s League, Merchants’ Ex-
change, Missouri Manufacturers’ Asso-
ciation and the million population as well.
In addition to the above, there are
some forty-five other organizations that
are directly interested in making this
convention the most important in his-
tory.—E. H.S.

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NO DOUBT WITH ETHICAL
i INTENTIONS
The newspapers report that Col.

John Jacob Astor has gradually acquired
four thousand acres of land in Dutchess
County, near Rhinebeck, and is restoring
most of them to the state of nature.
The process involves the demolition of
dwellings, churches and other buildings
once in use by the occupants of the land,
and the emancipation of the land itself
from tillage. Two villages, the papers
say—one of thirty houses, the other of
forty—have disappeared in the march
of Col, Astor’s improvements.

Colonel Astor is not a wasteful man,
and has, no doubt, a deeper purpose in
his innovations than thoughtless observers
suspect. Persons who suppose that he
is merely making for himself: a park
and shooting preserve conveniently near
New York are invited to extend their
hypothesis. Park and_ shooting place
may be incidents of his intention, but we
suspect his chief design is to afford
an object lesson of the uses of .money.

which, helped in their day to raise hob

in France and in-our day . have brought
on the budget crisis in England. Without
some such ethical purpose in the back
of his mind the Colonel, we are pretty
sure, would not be making waste land

‘of so many. acres.

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FARMERS SHOULD ORGANIZE NOW

A farmer writes to the Craik Weekly
News as follows:

Saskatchewan now ranks first as a wheat
producing province of the Dominion,
and that it will always be prominently
an agricultural province, depending main-
ly upon the farmer for the production
of her wealth, is very plain to all. And
that these farmers are alive to the interest
of themselves and the country was shown
by the great gathering of earnest men
assembled at the Grain Growers’ Conven-
tion at Prince Albert.

A keen enthusiasm was shown through-
out the convention. The thorough and
business-like manner in which the work
was done, and matters pertaining to the
country’s welfare discussed, shows that
there are many capable leaders at the
head of the organization.

It behooves every farmer to step for-
ward like a man to support these cham-
pions of ourrights. Now is the time they
need your help and encouragement.
In joining the association you are helping
yourself, helping your neighbor and ad-
vancing the interest of your country.

In demanding any reform from the
governments, it is the numbers behind
these demands that count. Would they
dare refuse any demand which was
demanded by the whole country? .If
every farmer belonged to the association,
would they refuse to listen? Farmers,
this is where your great strength lies in
UNITY.

If the farmers of the province are to
receive a just reward for their toil they
must look well to their interest. That we
are prosperous now is because our land
is new and in its full strength, not because
we are getting a just reward for our
work. This will not always be so. We
must look ahead and make provision now,
while we have the means, the opportunity
and the men.
ahead. Strike while the iron is hot.

In the Living Present :

Now is the time to make our demands.
The governments are favorable to us, the
oppositions are in their infancy (but are
growing fast), and they will be easier
handled now than when they have grown

‘to such large proportions as to defy the

wholecountry.

Now is the time to push :

There is much to strive for, mind we
are far from the world’s markets, the
freight on all our products is far too high—
as well as on all we have to buy—as it
all has to be brought from a distance.
Our position on the continent makes
cheap transportation absolutely necessary.

Then there is another question of vital
importance to us, that is the high tariff.
Most of this unjust tax we are paying
is not going to the government but into
the pockets of some private manufacturer.
There are many other questions which

‘need your thought and attention.

Remember, if the province is to be
developed to its utmost, living must be
made as cheap as possible and everyone
must receive the just return for his
labor. You owe it as a duty to your
family, to your profession and to your
country, to improve your condition to
the utmost, to be able to give to your
children all the advantages possible,
that they may grow up noble, useful men
and women—an honor to this fair province
and a benefit to mankind.

Me te
eye

HOW THE FARMER FAILS
TO PROFIT

In the course of the discussion of the
tariff in the House of Commons Major
Currie gave a specific instance of the way
in which the farmers of Canada are put
at disadvantage. ‘‘In New Brunswick
they have been shipping potatoes in to
the United States, but the American
government has raised the duty on
potatoes to 40 cents per bushel and our
duty on potatoes coming into Canada
from the United States remains at 20
cents per bushel. The Americans send
thousands of bushels of potatoes into
Canada because their potato crop ripens
earlier than ours and yet the Canadain
farmers in New Brunswick are practi-
cally prohibited from sending potatoes

into the United States. In view of such

‘things as this, I. ask the house, and I

ask the government is it not fair that we

‘should adopt ‘the principle of putting
tariff as

against tariff.”
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The Grain Growers’ and C. O. F.,
are talking of -building a hall in Ridge-
ville, Manitoba.—Dominion City paper.

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tated my taking the early morning

train, and as I settled back into

my seat my attention was centered
upon two prominent farmers whom
knew very well, and after the common
salutations re health and weather, they
commenced an animated discussion of
the elevator question, and for convenience
in recording what they said, I will call
the one Mr. Capital G and the other
Mr. Small G.

Mr. Capital G opened up by asking,
“What is all this agitation the Grain
Growers’ Association is keeping up in
reference to the elevators about?”

“Well,” said Mr. Small G. “That is
rather a large question, but of course you
must know the history of this elevator
monopoly. But, no, you did not com-
mence raising grain until long after the
initial stages of this agitation were passed.
But I suppose you are aware that the
present grain and inspection act, with
all its provisions for safe-guarding the
individual shipper, together with the
loading platform facilities, is the result
of the efforts of this association.”

“Oh, yes,” said Mr. Capital G, “TI
have heard that they lay claim to that.
But that has nothing to do with the
proposition now before us. These safe-
guards are here, no m itter how they came,’

“No,” said Mr. Small G, “the fight
has only just begun. Your education
in this. matter is considerably out of
joint. The fact that the Department
of Trade and Commerce is now conducting
an investigation as to why millions of
bushels of wheat going into the terminals
as No. 2 Northern can go out as No. 1,
similar to a condition that prevailed at
Duluth, which was discovered recently
by a similar investigation, is proof that
this matter is not so simple as it looks.”

“But the terminal elevators have no
connection with the interior elevators,”’
said Mr. Capital G,

“That is where you are mistaken,”
said Mr, Small G. “The same brood
that operates the interior elevators can
manipulate things at the terminals to
such an extent that I have no doubt will
be a surprise to the Department of Trade
and Commerce before they get through
with the investigation.”

“Well, now, look here,” said Mr.
Capital G, ‘“‘it is three years since I
commenced farming and this last year
I grew some forty thousand bushels of
grain, wheat, oats and flax; and I have
made the discovery that I cannot afford
to have my team hauling wheat in the fall
when they can be working on the land.
They are worth ten or fifteen dollars per
day on the land. Moreover, it is difficult
to get cars in the fall, when so many
are shipping, so I built several bins in
the field, holding some twelve hundred
bushels each. They cost $60 each, well
floored and roofed, and will last five or
six years. Iran my grain direct from the
thresher into these and kept my teans
at work on the land.

“T had an economy cleaner on. my
thresher, which screened out from three
to five per cent. small wheat. This I
re-cleaned and took to the mill and sold
it at 75 cents per bushel. I then bagged
up the remainder of these screenings and
took them to the mill and sold it for chop
feed at 60 cents per bushel; so that I
marketed every pound that came through
the thresher. I erected on the farm a
set. of modern scales and weighed every
pound of grain leaving the farm. I
oaded my grain during the winter over
the loading platform, and the weights
all held out close enough at Fort William
Lo be quite satisfactory. I sent this grain
to three different commission firms and
every car except one went straight grade
with no dockage, and this one was caused
hy getting mixed with snow; and every
car sold at a premium over track price
for the day, ranging half a cent to two
and three-quarters cents, averaging about
two cents premium,

A RECENT visit to Regina necessi-

Cas of The Elevator Problem

The big producer discussed the situation with the small producer. They
arrive at the conclusion that both are in the same punt.

THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE

SASKATCHEWAN SECTION!

et

This Section of the Guide is conducted officially for the Saskatchewan Grain Growers Association

y F. W Green, Secretary, Moose Jaw, Sask.

The Neighbor’s Experience

and one cent commission. That

PRESIDENT GATES URGES SUBMISSAL OF PRO-
POSALS TO ELEVATOR COMMISSION

The following interesting letter and memorandum has reached us from
President Gates, and we think it is of such general interest that we herewith
publish it for the benefit of our members:—

: Fillmore, April 9th, 1910.
F. W. Green, Esq., Secretary G. G. A.

Dear Sir:—In considering what action should be taken by our Association
in respect to the commission of enquiry regarding elevators and other matters
concerning the disposition of the grain crop of the province of Saskatchewan,
we are in a very different position to that occupied by the Manitoba Association
prior to the passing of legislation on the subject by the Manitoba legislature.

We, as an association have not been invited to confer with the government,
or even, so far as I am aware, especially asked as an association to submit any
proposal or evidence to the commission.

Nevertheless I think it will be generally expected that the executive of our
association should prepare and submit to the commission, definite proposals.
It is well known what we want and our demands and requests have been repeat-
edly stated in general terms, and with more or less explanatory detail.

I am of the opinion that we should reiterate our wishes with all the force
at our conimand, and am of the opinion, also, that we should elaborate details
a what we consider practicable and satisfactory methods of achieving our
ends.

While in the past we have struggled for the principle, and while the ultimate

fixing of details rests necessarily with the legislature, it yet seems to me that the
sittings of the commission afford us an opportunity of advantageously placing
publicly on record what we deem essential features of any system which may be
adopted by the government as the outcome of the report of the commission.
We have the opportunity properly used of influencing that report by the sub-
mission of carefully considered, reasonable and practical proposals.

Perhaps the best way would be to submit in evidence to the commission,
a memorandum which should be the official evidence of the executive, and which
memorandum should be drawn up at a meeting of the executive to be held at
some convenient time next month. This would give time to collect the latest
available statistics as to number of elevators, amount of grain handled, informa-
tion re farmers’ elevators, etc. :

Further, that each member of the executive and each member of the asso-
ciation be urged by circular to all sub-associations, and by statement in the official
organ, to give whatever information is at their disposal to the commission as
individuals.

When more is known as to the full scope of the enquiry, the executive should
decide what evidence they could offer on other subjects, and take steps to present
the same.

In the meantime I have prepared the enclosed memorandum which you
might submit to the executive officers for their consideration preliminary to the
suggested executive meeting.

This memorandum is not to be considered complete, but merely suggestions
of some points upon which we ought to be agreed.

Yours very truly,
F, M. GATES.

WHAT WE WANT

Storage and shipping facilities independent of and separate from the buyers

of and dealers in grain, where the identity of the grain may be preserved abso-
lutely and without question until the same is sold, if the owner so desires; and
where the weight will be correct and be the full weight after cleaning, less a uni-
form dockage set by law to provide for shrinkage and handling; and where a
method of sampling is followed that will enable the grade to be determined in
advance of shipment when necessary; and further that the certificate of the eleva-
tor operator with grade attached be such that under the system adopted it shall
be recognized as negotiable to the same extent and in the same manner as a bill
of lading.

That direct loading from platform and siding into cars be continued as at

resent, ‘
ss That no expropriation clause be incorporated in any act of the legislature
establishing or authorizing government ownership and operation of elevators.

That the government at every point where application is made by a sufficient
number of farmers to warrant the necessary expenditure, provide either by the
erection of new premises or by purchase and alteration of existing privately-
owned elevators, the accommodation asked and operate the same.

That the system provide for cleaning grain at point of reception.

That the system be operated by a commission, the form and method of
appointment of such commission to be: ,

As it is almost a certainty that any government will demand some form of
guarantee from farmers that an elevator when provided at any point shall receive
sufficient patronage to ensure that the ordinary charges for elevator service will
produce a revenue sufficient to provide operating expenses, up-keep and sinking
fund, it would be well to decide what would be reasonable and acceptable to both
the government and our members. :

A hard and fast agreement such as was demanded by the Manitoba bill
would undoubtedly be unpopular and tend to defeat the success of the measure.

A guarantee of a given quantity of grain in the aggregate by a number of
farmers and specified as to be 50 or 60 per cent. of the grain shipped by each of
them would probably be more acceptable to the producer and should be perfectly
satisfactory to the government. :

Or, that the farmers of a district demanding elevator accommodation of the
government, should contribute 25 per cent of the cost of providing the same
by subscribing for government bonds, and thus proving their interest In and
evidencing to the government that the necessary patronage will be forthcoming.

That provision will be made by the system for handling single loads or
quantities less than car lots, and arrangements made whereby the owner of such
loads may receive an advance of not less than 65 per cent. (possibly 80 per cent.),
of the estimated value, if he so desires.

Ff. W. GREEN,

Now, my neighbor sold his to the
elevator here and they charged him one
and three-quarter cents operating charge

LLL NCCC OLN CLC

April 20th, 1910

SASKATCHEWAN GRAIN
GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION

Honorary PrestpEnt :
E. NS HOPKINS - - Moose Jaw
PRESIDENT :
F.M. GATES - - - Fiuumorp
Vick-PRESIDENT :
J. A. MURRAY - + WarrEiua
SEcCRETARY-TREASURER:
FRED. W.GREEN - Moose Jaw

Directors at LARGE:

E, A. Partridge, Sintaluta; George
‘Langley, Maymont; F. W. Green,
Moose Jaw; F. C. Tate, Grand Coulee;
A. G. Hawkes, Percival; Wm. Noble,
Oxbow.

Disrricr Directors :
James Robinson, Walpole; J. A.
Maharg, Moose Jaw; Charles Dunn-
ing, Beaverdale; John Evans, Nutana,
Dr. T. Hill, Kinley; Thos. Cochrane,
Melfort; Andrew Knox, Colleston;
George Boerma, North Battleford.

they bought his wheat at track price
less two and three-quarter cents per bushel
besides a considerable dockage; so you
will see I got practically 4 cents per bushel
more than he did, as considerable of
mine was sold on 4% cent commission.
My teams haul two loads per day the
same as his, and put it directly into the
car, and they were generally home first.
They would not have hauled a pound
more if they had put it into an elevator.
Now, of what use would your government
elevator be to me?”

“T know,” he continued, ‘‘that you will
likely say that I am not a representative
farmer, and that hundreds cannot do as
I do; but I want to tell-you that I repre-
sent a class of farmers who can and do do
it, and you will not get me to agree to
load the country with debt for a system
of elevators to help those who will not
try to utilize the facilities that are offered
them already, And you will have to
shear off the sentiment from your. ar-
gument and get down to pure business
with me.”

“Well, all right,” said Mr. Small G,
“these hundreds you speak of, who
are not situated like you, may be put at
tens of thousands, and call them what
you will, there is the condition to face
that they do not help themselves, as 1
suppose you mean they do not take ad-
vantage of the provisions of the Grain
Act, viz., to weigh and demand correct
weight and grade, or special bin and
ship direct.”

“Ves. Just hold on: you wait,” he
went on to say, “the condition is there and
millions of bushels of our wheat is going
on the market under this condition,
and it places so much wheat in the hands
of the large dealers and millers, who are
also elevator men and exporters, that
they can practically control the price
of Canadian wheat on the ultimate mar-
ket. And, as a matter of fact, it is to
their interest to manipulate the price
and quality of our exportable surplus
in such a way that it pays them to sell
Canadian wheat on the ultimate market
so as to spoil its maximum value to the
British miller for blending purposes, so
they may beat him in competition (with
Canadian flour made out of better quali-
ties of grain) on his own market.

The Manipulators

“Do you see, they try to make con-
ditions so that the British miller cannot
compete with Canadian flour on the one
hand and at the same time fix the price
of our export wheat at less than its maxi-
mum value, so that they, the Canadian
dealers, can buy Canadian maximum
wheat at minimum prices; and so, while
you, with your big outfit and farms
are able to escape the cut-throat method,
of the Canadian elevator men at this end
through the facilities given you by the
efforts of this Grain Growers’. Associ-
ation—as I said, the fight’s only begun—
and the very condition you have described
re this ignorant crowd who dump their
wheat into the elevator on the elevator’s
terms, is the very condition, the breeding
and feeding ground which makes it
possible for these large dealers to create
conditions at the ultimate market by
which they fix the price for all Canadian
wheat—of course, within certain limits—
and by the power thus acquired skin you,

sharp as you are, along with all the rest,
i “f Continued on Page 22

April 20th, 1910

THE GRAIN

* Pushing The Guide

The local branch associations in Sas-
katchewan have decided it is to their
advantage to have every member a
subscriber to THe Gurpe and have started
a campaign for that purpose. The fol-
lowing are some of the letters received:

Short and Sweet

Enclosed please find cash for twenty
subscriptions to THe Guip8; also for
twenty-five copies of the Prince Albert
Convention Report.

FRANK FE. ADAMS, Sec.
Cupar.
OO
Encouraging Words From Lakeview

Re yours of the 31st of March. I
am pleased to say that my association
has already taken action with regard to
subscriptions to THe Gurpe. I have
also persuaded Wadena association to
take action along the same lines. Shall
be pleased to have the convention re-

ports.
J. W.S. CHILD, Sec.

Me
fe he

Message From Orangeville

In reply to your letter of March 31,
enclosed please find order for money for
subscriptions to THe Gurpr, to be sent
to the names and addresses as given
below. Also $1.25 for twenty-five copies
of the Prince Albert Convention Report,
and ten cents for postage.

I think that is a good idea about push-
ing Tue Gurpre. I don’t know what
other way better there is of seeing for
themselves what some people are doing
for the betterment of the farmers than
by reading Toe Grain Growers’ GuipE.
I think the majority will continue taking
it. There are quite a few around that I
tried hard to get to subscribe a couple
of years ago that are taking it now and
wouldn’t be without it.

W. L. WELLS, Sec.
Orangeville G.G.A.

OOO
Brownlee Growing

Enclosed.please find cheque for $15.00.
We have twenty-six. members. $13.00
is from this source and $2.00 is for the
Grain Growers’ GuipE . Send one to
H. F. Boyd, Brownlee, and the other to
Hector MacDonald, Brownlee. I ‘am
also enclosing names for ten trial subscrip-

tions.
H. A. LILLY, Sec.-Treas.
Brownlee.

PROMPT ACTION

Oh! That They Would With One Accord
Act Like This

In reply to yours of March 31, please
find $1.25 for package of twenty-five
copies of the Convention Report and
ten subscriptions to Tur Guipr.

Wishing you and the association every
success, I remain,

GEO. H. BARBER, Sec.
Newberry G.G.A.

So fe ke
fe ae ee

MR. MAHARG’S URGENT APPEAL
FOR ORGANIZATION

A very enthusiastic meeting of the
Grain Growers’ Association was held
in Eyebrow on Friday evening, when
addresses were delivered by Messrs
Maharg and Smith, prominent farmers
of Moose Jaw.

Mr Maharg dwelt upon the necessity
of farmers combining’ to protect their
interests The Grain Growers’ Asso-
ciation is endeavoring to remedy some
of the abuses which affected the grain
growers’ of the prairie provinces At
present every effort is being put forth to
improve the grain handling system. The
association has for some time advocated
strongly the government ownership of
elevators. The governments of Manitoba
and Saskatchewan are now making ar-
rangements to bring about the system
desired by the farmers. Mr. Maharg
called upon the farmers and members of
the association to fight together shoulder
to shoulder until they have made the
government concede their demands.

Mr. Maharg also drew attention to
the fact that other abuses, exist. Ma-
chinery is much too high. A coal monop-
oly’ exists. Lumber can be sold much
cheaper. These and other abuses must
be remedied and the farmers through
their organization must. start the inves-
tigations.

Following the address by Mr. Ma-
harg, the officers of the Eyebrow Grain
Growers’ Association were elected
President, W. Pennington; vice-president,
H. Scales; secretary-treasurer, F. Riggall.
A board of directors consisting of Messrs.
Bulman, Compton and Taylor was also
appointed.

r. Smith then gave an outline of the
manner in which the orgainzations are
usually conducted.

Me ote om
oe Me ee

WHAT ORGANIZATION IS DOING
FOR NORMANTON

The president took the chair at 8
p.m. and the ‘‘ Maple Leaf’’ having been
sung, the minutes of last meeting were
read and approved. The secretary read
correspondence. Satisfaction was ex-
pressed at the concession of time on
machine notes by the local implememt
dealers and an acknowledgment from the

GROWERS’

GUIDE

subject being introduced by C. J. Lawless
and taken up generally by the meeting.
A deal of routine work having been ac-
complished the next meeting was fixed for
April 6th at 7.30 p.m. and the meeting
adjourned after singing the National
Anthem.
ae me &

WHO IS TO CONTROL THE
ELEVATORS?

A prominent Winnipeg agricultural
paper this month says, in reference to
Manitoba elevator commission, that it
should be constituted so that it will
serve the whole people. If it is only
designed to serve the producer of wheat
it would be no better than a railroad
commission committed to secure higher
prices for the railroads. i

“Government elevators,’ says this
paper, “‘are required to guarantee to the
producer just and proper treatment—
that and that only—and the farmer
asks no more. Consequently the farmer

demands a management that is responsible
to the elevators of the province.”

Farm Home, Thos. E. Gallangher, Summerside, Sask.

Goose Lake Mills was read, in which they
thanked the association for promise of
support.

The correspondence from F. W. Green
was read and his action in refusing to
read the correspondence at the conven-
tion justified by the perusal of the letters
in question.

The correspondence regarding the navy
resolution passed some five weeks ago
was read and the matter was left in abey-
ance for the present. Mr. Woodcock’s
motion to write further Tne Grain
eh hala te Guipe if necessary, was car-
ried.

After much delay a final letter was read
from D. Scott, Supt. of Immi-
gration, Ottawa, re seed grain, in which
after thanking the Normanton Associa-
tion for bringing the matter so prominent-
ly before the department, he assures us
of greater care in the future A short
talk on hail insurance, followed, the

Now, of course, this may be exactly
what the people of Manitoba want;
it may be what the Grain Growers of
Manitoba want; and it may be what the
farmers of Saskatchewan want, but we
do not think they will admit all this.
It is doubtful if the Saskatchewan Grain
Growers are satisfied that they would
get just and fair treatment if they gave
all the electors of Saskatchewan a hand
in the management of their product,
unless all the electors of Saskatchewan
are willing to let the farmers of Saskatche-
wan have an equal share in the manage-
ment of the product of the rest of the
electors. .

It is open to question if the Manitoba
farmers will be satisfied to take all
Winnipeg business men and artisans
into partnership in the management of
their elevators and their wheat, and to
share with them the price fixing power
of the commodity the farmer has to sell,

ASSOCIATIONS SHOULD SUBMIT VIEWS

The elevator commission is likely to hold sittings at several country points
for the purpose of receiving the views of Grain Growers’ and others in reference
to the proposed elevator system, and although the itinerary is not permanently
settled, it seems to me that our local associations should lose no time in appoint-
ing a committee to lay the views of their association before the commission.

I am informed that the commission wishes to give every man who desires
to make a statement, offer evidence or present ideas, an opportunity of doing
so, bearing upon the questions as to whether you would advise a government
monopoly of all the elevator system, or a line of elevators, one at each shipping
point; or would you suggest a line of elevators at only such points as the people
shall especially petition for; or would you suggest a system of elevators, each
controlled by a local board and amalgamated under one central management;
or would you favor a complete system with all the necessary equipment to handle
our grain from the initial shipping point to the ultimate market, able to hold
its own in open competition with any other trust or combination whatsoever.

Re management.

Do you desire the central management to be a.commission

of three with equal authority? How would you appoint them? Would you de-
sire a board of directors with one business manager as head, or would you decire
a board of trustees, one of which should retire every two or three years; or woud
you prefer the whole system to be under the direct control of the Minister of
Agriculture; or a board consisting of the Minister of Agriculture and two nom-
inees of the Grain Growers’ Association, one of the latter to seek re-appointment
every third or fourth year, or have you any other ideas or suggestions to present
that would aid the commission in the selection of the most suitable solution. .

If you do not appoint someone to do this work, your ideas might be sent

direct to this office.

An early reply as to your intentions

will oblige.
FRED W. GREEN, Secretary.

i ‘

Page 21

while he remains just as helpless as ever
in helping to fix the price of the things
he buys. It would be well for Saskatche-
wan farmers to ring out in clear tones
whether they want their commission to
be controlled by the electors of the prov-
ince, or by the producers of the wheat.
It will be well for them to say whether
they are willing to allow the consumers
of wheat to say what the price of wheat
shall be and consequently direct how
many hours and how fast the farmer
shall work. Is there to be any uncertainty
what this commission is for and who it is
to serve?

Why, Saskatchewan farmers have been
fondly expecting that this little job of
taking a hand in price fixing at least
within the limits of the world’s market
was the very thing they were trying to
adjust. And so now the Manitoba
commission is not to be for the farmers’
service. But for the electors. What
about the cheap food supplies, and shorter
hours for all trades and artisans? Why
not let farmers take a hand in all trades
unions; labor unions; lumber and _ coal
combines; retail merchants’ associations;
grain exchanges; stockyard companies;
steamship and railroad companies and
tariff fixing conferences?

“‘The farmer asks no more and will be
content with no less.” Of course then
we will be willing to allow all to help
run our elevators. But until there is
an agreement arranged on a basis of rela-
tive values so that each worker gets
justice, perhaps farmers better manage
the elevator business.

F. W. GREEN.

Se te
me me te

UNITED STRENGTH
Contributed
As farmers we’re gathering from every
known land,
Our ranks ever growing a strong mighty

band,

And gladly we turn the rich sod at our
eet,

And garner the bright golden No. 1
wheat.

British farmers are we,

And we'll let the world see,

That we’re standing together, ready,
ah ready,

To fight for our rights, yes, again and
again.

His toil may be hard but a farmer can
smile,

When he views the bright grain waving
mile upon mile,

But he frowns when he thinks that it’s

mighty unjust

To be robbed of his grain by some combine
or trust.

Cuorvs

Let us face then, my lads, the stern work
we’ve ahead,

To get fair returns for our work raising
bread.

If we stand well together as farmers can

: do,

We can ask a fair price, and by jove, ‘get

it, too.

(Tune, Hearts of Oak .|
ee ae
ONE SCORE MEMBERS IN NEW
ASSOCIATION
I am pleased to inform you that a
branch of the Grain Growers’ Association
was formed at Orcadia on Monday,
the 28th of March, with the following

officers: President, John F. Reid; vice-
president, Ferdinant Jonat; secretary-
treasurer, John G. Stephen. Directors:

Jas. Sinclair, Frank Patterson, John
Keilo, Jas. L. Dodge, August Gounett
and Geo. S. Wiles. We received twenty
members, and I am enclosing you ten
dollars, being half the money received.
I expect to hear from you, and I should
like to get as much information as possible.
We are new to this work, but should like
to start on a good foundation, and keep
‘on growing. e call our branch the
Orcadia’ G. G. A. ‘We feel certain of

many more members.
JOHN G. STEPHEN, Sec.-Treas.

& & &
AUTO TRIP

Dear Sir:—With regard to yours of
the 15th inst., we will be very pleased
if you will favor us with a call during your
tour of the province, and will pay the
$20. I will write you again re the definite

place, which will probably be Wadena.

I am arranging a committee of the local
associations to handle the matter.
J. W. L. CHILD,

Page 22

THE GRAIN GROWERS} GUYDIE

LJ Book Review

The Twentieth Century Magazine

There is an artistic monthly. magazine
published down in Boston, Mass., which
comes about as near being an ideal publi-
cation for western grain growers to read
and study as there is printed anywhere.
It is printed in Old Boston, but it is as
broad as the western prairies and as
wholesome and strong and independent
and free as they are. It will appeal to
the democratic and fearless farmers of
the west, and more particularly to those
who are participating in the great struggle
against unfair conditions.

The editor of this monthly budget
of inspiration has called it the ‘‘ Twentieth
Century Magazine,’ and a cursory
glance through one number will reveal
the reason for this. It deals with the
vital problems of today; it treats of
economic, social and political questions;
its trend is steadfastly upward; it avoids
ruts, and aims for a higher, nobler civi.iza-
tion; its articles are the production of
the most advanced thinkers, and it pub-
lishes from month to month a record of
oon century progress along many
ines.

A member of the Grain Growers’
Association will receive a thrill of satis-
faction in reading this bright publication
to observe how throoughly it is in accord
with his own feelings. It is not con-
trolled by financial corporations, trusts
or political bodies, and it has absolutely
no regard for where the chips are going
to fly. While at all times fearlessly
exposing corruption, oppression and those
reactionary influences that are striking
at the vitals of free government the
Twentieth Century Magazine is before
all else a constructive journal of democra-
ey and enlightened progress. It exposes
the grave evils that are sapping the pros-
perity, checking the development and
destroying the happiness of the people,
while disintegrating government in all
its ramifications. But it gives far more
space to fundamental demands and just
remedies for existing evils, and to detailed
examples of the results that are following
the introduction of sound and popular
measures for promoting clean and just
government. :

Departments are devoted to direct
legislation news, public ownership news,
woman’s progress, what cities are doing,
Socialism and co-operative news.

A brief review of some of the articles
in the April number will serve to indicate
the general tenor of the magazine. Among
the distinctively interesting papers is one
by Mr. Joseph Fels, the millionaire soap
manufacturer of London, England, who
recently made an avowal in Chicago that
he would “spend the damnable money”
he hud made to wipe out the system by
which he made it. He writes of **Some
Fruits of Landlorism,” in which he says:
“The English people are awake to the
fact that under their very eyes the land
has been taken away from them. The
commons have been fenced in to. make
great estates and game preserves, while
in towns and citics land is held at such
high prices that capital and labor cannot
make a living unit. Although everybody
knows that the value of land in England
has increased many thousandfold in
the past two hundred years, the landed
interests have thus far succeeded in pre-
venting any increase in ‘the valuation
of their holdings for the purpose of taxa-
tion since a valuation made in the year
1696, The effect of this has been, first,
as I have stated, to favor land monopoly;
secondly, to relieve land owners of their
share of expenses of government; and,
thirdly, to increase the tax burdens of
all other citizens. All exemptions from
taxation, and all tax-dodging works this
way. Kor everyone who escapes, the
heavier the burden is which the rest
have to bear. and as tax dodgers the lords
of England have long held the champion-
ship. Their contemptible meanness to-
wards the poor and the unfortunate
almost passes belief. Stealing candy
from children would be considered a noble
and generous act compared to the whole
record of the House of Lords in the matter
of taxation.”

Morgan, the Master of America

The editor of the magazine, B. O.
Flower, who is renowned. as a magazine
writer and who was formerly editor
of the Arena magazine, contributes a
masterful editorial on ‘‘ Morgan, the Mas-
ter of America.” His opening paragraph
reads as follows: ‘The commercial des-
potism that has excited the alarm of the
noblest and most far sighted statesmen
since the early seventies, has advanced
with sueh startling rapidity and has be-
come so insolent, in its defiance of law,
so brazen in its efforts to debauch govern-
ments and despoil the wealth creators
that it has as last called forth utterances
from the highest financial authorities
and protests from conservative statesmen
that it would seem must awaken the sleep-
ing conscience and intelligence of our
people.”

The balance of the article gives an
historical example of the menace of private
monopoly of money; tells how the con-
trol of the people’s money is rapidly
passing into the hands of the few; how
these monopolies in private hands are
engines for oppression and slavery, and
treats of the present menace of corporate
interests.

The Rev. A. H. C. Morse, M.A., B.D.,
pastor of a large Brooklyn Baptist church,
has had the courage to write an article
on ‘‘ Modernism,” in which he scores
Pope Pius X., and F. W. Fitzpatrick
has contributed a timely paper on * Postal
Savings Banks and the People.”

Among the most constructive and in-
forming papers in this issue is found the
graphic and illuminating story of the
most fundamentally democratic example
of the commission form of government
in America, if not in the world, and the
triumphant results that have’ so ‘far
marked its introduction. This paper
on “Grand Junction’s Democratic Charter”
was written by Hon. James W. Bucklin,
city attorney for Grand Junction, and
one of the fathers of the charter. Grand
Junction, Colorado, is a city of 12,000
people, and its commission form of
municipal government has been success-
fully used since April, 1909. 1t embodies
initiative and referendum provisions, and
one of its most important features is the
establishment of the “indeterminate”
franchise for all public service corpor-
ations. The manufacture, sale and stor-
age of intoxicating liquors is prohibited,
and all elective officers are nominated
by twenty-five individual petitioners,
who must state under oath that they
do not nominate their candidate as the
representative of any political - party.
The candidate in his written acceptance
must make a similar statement. ‘his is
planned to do away with party corrup-

tion in municipal affairs, which is “so

prevalent in the United jStates.

Mr. George H. Shibley, director of
the American Bureau of Political Research
contributes to this issue.the first of a
‘series of short papers on political prob-
lems vital to the existence of a demo-
cratic republic. The péople are coming
to see more and more clearly that the
most imporatnt immediate problem before
the country is—Shall the people rule and

government be administered in their .

interests? Or shall the people be made
the victims of privileged wealth ruling
through corrupt practices and operated.
by means of the political bosses and the
money controlled machines?

There are other articles on interesting
subjects, and one of them is by Count
Leo Tolstoi. The book review. section
takes up several pages, and the volumes
reviewed are mostly such as would be
a valuable acquisition to the grain grower
who is tired of monopoly rule.

The price of this publication delivered
to any address in Canada is $2.60 per
year, or 25 cents for single numbers.
It can be procured -by addressing The
Twentieth Century Company, 5 Park
Square, Boston, Mass. E.H.S.

oe &

Why not say and do the good thing ~ ~~:

now?

The Crux of the Ele-
vator Problem

Continued from page 20

to a far greater extent at the ultimate
ped than is possible at this end of the
ine.

“Well,” said Mr. Capital G, “if you
can show that to be true, I will do every-
thing in my power to fight them to a
finish. I am the man from Missouri.
I will surely go after them for all I am
worth. Not because they squeeze some
fellow who could help himself if he would.
Not because of sentiment, mark you.
But if those fellows’ ignorant actions
create a condition which gives the dealers
a leverage which they use on me, why,
then, it develops into a business proposi-
tion with me, which makes the thing
altogether different. But even then I
cannot see how your proposal for a govern-

ment-owned initial elevator system is.
. going to. help me... If these same fellows

are going to handle all the wheat from
Winnipeg just the same as they do now.
At best, as I understand it, the proposed
system is only to operate against them in
competition at initial points; and the
same combination will still handle all the
wheat. The wheat will likely be all paid

April220th, 1910

for from’ Winnipeg, as now, and those
who have the money in the wheat from
there on will play the game for all it is
worth,”

“That is just what I told you,” said
Mr. Small G, “the fight is only just
begun. It will certainly take a system
with complete equipment, with initial
elevators, terminal space under their
command and control, a commission
house and capital to enable them to ex-
port. In other words, equipment suffi-
cient to enable Saskatchewan to compete
with any living combination. A power
capable of handling Saskatchewan wheat
for Saskatchewan people, by Saskatche-
wan people. Yes, and in the interests
of Saskatchewan wheat growers.”

Just then the conductor shouted out
“Regina,” and I lost sight of my men.

FRED W. GREEN.

Pe te
me me ee

THE ELEVATOR COMMISSION

Dear Sir:—Your correspondence wis
read by me at the last meeting of our
association on March 31. As a result
therefrom, the following resolution was
passed: ‘‘Resolved, that we, the Lake-
view association, do hereby pass a vote
of confidence in Messrs. Green and Lang-
ley, and do hereby congratulate them on
their appointment to the elevator commis-

sion.”
JOHN W. L. CHILD, Sec

Progress of Co-operation in the United States

One Sixth of Grain Produced There Handled by Co-operative Grain Elevators

HILE there is yet much to be

desired in the co-operative situa-

tion in the United States as it

relates to the agricultural in-
terests, conditions are much better than
ever before. While co-operation is being
applied to almost every phase of American
agriculture, there are four lines in which
it has proved eminently successful;
namely, marketing of fruit, marketing
of grain, and the manufacturing and mar-
keting of dairy products. The co-opera-
tive associations of Southern California
are probably the highest type in the coun-
try. They are perfectly organized and
work to the satisfaction of the growers.
The situation is somewhat unique, in
that the region is devoted very largely
to the exclusive growing of fruits, conse-
quently the matter can be quite easily
hanuled. Co-operative creameries and
cheese factories are a decided success,
Iowa leading in this respect. These have
considerable. to contend with in the way
of opposilion from proprietary concerns.
The shipping of vegetables by co-opera-
tive assvuciations has succeeded with
varying degrees of success all over the
United States. The west, including such
regions as Texas, Colorado, and Arkansas
has had excellent results.

The Grain Growers of the great Mis-
sissippi Valley have had the hardest fight
but are gradually coming to their own.
A few years ago the co-operative elevator
was more or less of a joke. Today there
are more than 1600 in successful operation
and more than 300,000 Grain Growers
own stock in these co-operative elevators.
They handle about one-sixth of the grain
produced in the United States. Eight
new co-operative elevators are started
every week, and the movement is only
well started.

These co-operative elevators have been
compelled to fight the old line concerns.
These had so. long enjoyed a monopoly
of the grain trade and the great profits
resulting from this monopoly that they
employed every possible means to stifle
the co-operative movement. In_ this
they were aided and abetted by the rail-
roads. These two great influences direc-
ted all their energies against the farmers,
who, lacking organization and being
isolated made slow progress at first.
When a farmers’ company attempted to
build an elevator, building sites were
refused by the railroads, switches would
not be put in, cars could not be obtained,
and every other device known to the
soulless corporation was enlisted. The
farmers, however, developed the fighting
spirit that could not be downed. Al-
though defeated in many instances they
finally carried their case to the higher
courts, congress and to the interstate
commerce commission. They are grad-
ually securing their rights, although the
old-line elevators are fighting hard.
~~~ Need -of-Gonfidence -
It now looks as though the next decade

would show a very substantial increase
in the number of co-operative enter-
prises and the business transacted by them.
The keystone to success must always
be confidence. Co-operators must have
confidence in one another and in ‘the
officers handling their business. If this
is lacking the enterprise will be a failure.
It is claimed that the farmers are naturally
very suspicious. Undoubtedly the idea
has grown up from the fact that from
time immemorial the tiller of the soil has
been considered the legitimate prey for
the dwellers in the cities. The farmer is
buncoed and robbed and given but little
return for his labor. Centuries of such
treatment naturally developed this spirit
of distrust, so that it was but nature when
the farmers attempted to do business
themselves and employed a manager
they scrutinized his every act and also
that of their fellow. co-operators. This
resulted in the failure of many co-operative
enterprises which have since been very
successful.

The failure of the grange store was
another body blow, from which it took
many years to recover. During the last
ten years, however, co-operative enter-
prises have been so uniformly successful,
and the general principles of co-operation
are now so well understood, that it is
very unlikely that any serious setback
will again occur. There is no reason
why the progress should not be steady
and substantial. In organizing your
society follow the lines adopted by some
existing successful enterprise. Employ a
capable manager and your trouble is over.

It is a source of constant surprise why
England has succeeded so signally in
co-operative effort, while the United
States has had such a difficult proposition,
At the last annual meeting. of the co-
operative societies of Great Britain
the records showed that during 1908
business amounting to $537,000,000 was
transacted. This was a substantial in-
crease over the previous year. The mem-
bership of this society was over 2,500,000,
Not only do the people of Great Britain
market their crops successfully through
co-operative agencies, but they save
even more by making their purchases
through the co-operative stores.

Co-operation in Great Britain is highly
organized. The co-operative society man-
ufactures as well as distributes. The
great central organization is rapidly
becoming the chief factor in the mercan-
tile life of the nation, Something of
this kind can and will eventually develop
in the United States. When this comes
about farming will be much more pro-
fitable. The farmer will have just return
for his labor: Great concentration of
wealth will be impossible, while, on the
other hand, extreme poverty, particu-
larly in the country, will be unknown.
This state of affairs cannot be accom-:
plished unless the producing classes
co-operate.—Orange Judd Farmer.

April 20th, 1910

What the Grain Growers have
Done For You

Continued from page 8
when properly directed. The average
grain grower now stands for his rights
with an assurance that he has an asso-
ciation behind him that will see that
he gets them, and the old days can never
come again.

Organize! Organize!

From the foregoing it will be seen that
the association has been an immense
advantage to every grain grower in the
west and should have their hearty sup-
port. There is no other farmers’ asso-
ciation that has accomplished so much
for its members for the short time it
has been in existence. It has put many
dollars into the pockets of every individual
grain grower and could largely increase
its good work if every grain grower would
only give it the support he should for
the benefit he has and will receive.

Are You a Leech?

Are you one of the men who have taken
the hundreds of dollars. the association
has put into your pocket and have not
put into the association to improve
your own position? If so, wake up and
do something for the benefits you receive.

Do You Know a Better Way?

It was by organization that we accom-
plished anything, and it is only by or-
ganization we can ever hope to accomplish
anything. Every grain grower must
remember it is almost entirely bis own
fault that he is suffering many ills at the

resent time. Were all the grain growers
in the west combined under the associa-
tion, no reasonable request that they asked
for would be refused and until they do so
they may expect to go along in the same
old rut, as “hewers of wood and drawers
of water,” for the corporation interests.

We have been moving forward with
large strides, 300 sub-associations having
been formed. One and all recognize
that a great work is being accomplished.
not only in the present betterment of
the grain trade, but particularly in unifi-
cation of opinion, extension of organiza-
tion and cohesiveness among the farming
class,, placing them on a level with the
organized interests with which they do
business; and in coming together to
co-operate the more readily to avail
themselves of business opportunities and
improved methods, this organization,
which brings them together in the daily
work of their lives, is advancing them
socially and intellectually.

Most people have now come to the con-
clusion that nothing will give genuine
satisfaction in the elevator problem until
we can remove the middle man .and
speculator from dealing in our grain
between the farmers and the miller.
To this end we are trying for a system
of elevators under the government, or,
more expressly speaking, public control,
and we need every producer of grain
in this association.

If there is no local association in your
district, start one. Write the secretary
for particulars.

Me te
me ye

THE DECLINE OF PARTYISM

There was a time, not so long past in
Canada, when nine men out of every ten
belonged rigidly, and more or less rabidly,
to one or another political party. At
that time a man had only to announce
himself as a liberal or a conservative.
It was quite unnecessary as a rule to ask
any more. One knew almost to a dot
that man's standing on any question of
the day. It was in brief that position
officially taken by his party leaders.
Consequently there was little originality,
less interest, and no value in “politics.”
But the stereotyped, machine-made politic-
ian, is, though not entirely dead, at least
in a moribund condition. His personal
value is now-a-days discredited and. his
political efficiency discounted. There are
unfortunately still remaining in Canada
a few places where machine politics seem
to be enjoying some degree of their

ristine glory. The root of the evil lies
in the practice of that nepotism and
pairunage, which our political system

as rendered possible. And that spells
dishonest politics because it involves the
doctrine of nothing for nothing, and the
vote for a “‘quid pro quo.” But there is
happily no doubt that public opinion
is setting more and more strongly against
such a stale of affairs political, And this
reform is starting from the bottom up-

THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE

wards and will finally reach the men who
are still in the old way of thinking. And
the cause is a reasoning and reasonable
revolt against the tyranny which the
opinions of any group of men can wrongly
exert over the opinions of the very men
whose mouth pieces they are supposed to
be. There is nothing to be said against
a man who espouses a set of political
principles. To the man who does and

follows them consistently, because he'

believes in the principles themselves as
right, because they are his free choice
as the result of honest thought,is due only
honor and the gratitude of the country
to which he belongs. And it is for the
welfare and solid prosperity of Canada
that we are daily gaining more and more
men of this type. Shall we be accused of
egotism if we suggest that the develop-
ment of the west is in a large manner
responsible for this change? There is
nothing so fatally easy as falling into a
rut, whether in the habits of mind or
body. And it is in the older settlements
where the rival camps have been able to
use this fact for the sharper delimitation
of their boundaries that the machine
made brand of politics attains its rankest
growth. In the west opinion is less set-
tled perhaps, and less prejudiced, and is
able to take a comparatively detached,
and so a wider view. So far we have
considered the spontaneous and, as_ it
were automatic, growth of healthy opin-
ion. There is, however, a practical and
artificial measure which will foster it
most efficiently. This is the creation
of a permanent civil service, modelled
perhaps on the system which obtains
in Great Britain. Added to this must
be a clear cut and steadfastly adhered to
determination to have all public service
appointments made on merit and not
“pulled”? or purchased or granted on
grounds of political expediency. And we
are optimistic enough to foresee the day,
and at no very distant date, when this
will obtain more than it does at present.
We do not believe that any one party is
more to blame than another since oppor-
tunity is a fatal thing and our system is
loop-holed with opportunity. We do
blame the system and are proud to think
that the west is duing and will do its
full share towards reformation.—The
Melfort Moon.
OG

A CALL TO ARMS

The farmer is the producer and practi-
cally controls the wealth of this continent
and he has the commodity to combat
capital if he will but band himself with his
farmer friends, and cling tenaciously
to that which is his by right he will event-
ually submerge the capitalist and prove
that his products are greater than capital
which is nothing more or less than the
medium of exchange, consequently, Mr.
Farmer, you are supreme in your domain
and the capitalist and manufacturer
must bow and do homage to you. Call
a meeting here and re-organize and get
into harness ready for the fight.—Adanac
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THE GRAIN

Thirty-two New Associations in Four Months

Remarkable Progress of the Grain Growers’ Movement in Manitoba.
Events of the past winter has given great
Renown of the Grain Growers’ Association has

Increased Attendance and Interest.

are now 189 Branch Associations.
impetus to the Organization.

spread throughout the World.
Soclal Element as a Progress maker.

Te past four months have been a

period of remarkable advance in
the Grain Growers’ movement
throughout Manitoba—greater in-
deed than at any time in the history of
the organization. Since the first of the
year a total of $2 new associations have
been organized throughout the province
which brings the number of local branches
up to 189. New associations have been
formed at an average rate of one every
four days, so that it will not be long
before the association reaches the two
century mark. In addition to the 32
new branches the association has been
strengthened by the revival of two locals,
which are now in a thriving condition.
The greater number of new associa-
tions were established with an enthusiasm
that ensures a very material increase in
the membership; they fill up many gaps
in the association map, and bring added
influence and dignity to the great move-
ment.
The following is a list of the new
branches:

Arnaud Huston
Altamont Holmfield
Assissippi Lidstone
Altona Makaroff
Arran Miniska
Broomhill Mather
Brookdale Nesbitt
Bruxelles Neelin
Belmont Pretty Valley |
Berton Riding Mountain
Coultervale St. Claude
Clanwilliam St. Jean Baptiste
Delta Shellmouth
Dominion City Springficld
Dugald Thunder Hill
Greenway Vista

Almost all these associations were

formed as a result of the visits of the
directorate and other officials, and too
much credit cannot be given these leaders.
In addition to the strenuous work they
have had in connection with legislative
matters they have attended scores 0
meetings throughout the province, or-
ganizing new branches and enthusing
the members of the older associations.

The movement in Manitoba was given
a great impetus by the convention at
Brandon in December, and by the sub-
sequent events leading up to the legis-
lation for government owned elevators.
The advertisement given the Grain Grow-
ers’ Association in this period has made it
a household word in Manitoba, Sas-
katchewan and Alberta, and it has assum-
ed proportionately a greater stability
and permanency. Farmers have been
brought to a realization of what has been,
and is being done in their interests by
a union of forces; it has been forcibly
impressed upon them that there must
be systematic organization if they are
to secure their rights in the commercial
world, and the result has been more
branches, and a larger increase in the
membership.

The renown of the Grain Growers of
Western Canada has been spread to all
parts of the world during the past few
months as a result of the measure for
government ownership of elevators re-
cently passed by the Manitoba govern-
ment, and the movement has been given
broad publication in the Canadian,
British and United States newspapers
and magazines.

No greater or more prominent indi-
cation of the enthusiasm that has been
generated since the big Brandon con-
vention could be found than in the in-
creased attendance and earnest interest
at the meetings of the local branches.
Compared with former years there has
been an overwhelming improvement.
Participation in the discussions has been
more general, and especially in connection

There

The

with the elevator legislation. This is
illustrated by the fact that over 100
resolutions were received in the space
of a few wecks bearing on this question.

The co-operative spirit has, too, been
greater in evidence than in other years,
and this is clearly shown by the number
of associations purchasing twine, formalde-
hyde, lumber, machinery, etc., on the
co-operative plan.

A special and gratifying feature of the
meetings has been the attendance of
ladies and growing numbers of young
men who are taking an interest in the
movement. In many of the associations
the farmers’ wives and daughters are
becoming members, and an element of
sociability has been introduced which is
having a strong influence in maintaining
interest, and welding the branches solidly.
Never before in the seven years’ history

;ROWERS* GUIDE

K NITOBA SECTION +#

This Section of The Guide is conducted officially for the Manitoba Grain Growers Association
by R. McKenzie, Secretary, Winnipez, Man.

to the wheat producers. The association
brought together a powerful but hitherto
disunited force and welded into a compact
unit. It is only since the inception of the
G.G.A, that the farmers in the west have
properly begun to realize their power and
by adhering to sane policy and consistent
effort the association will accomplish
still greater results.

The farmers should not hesitate to
join the Grain Growers and become
active members. Too often it is noted
that prominent farmers refuse to come
in and criticise the workings of the body
from the outside.

From every standpoint, but particu-
larly from the standpoint of the Grain
Growers themselves, this is a mistake.

The farmer who is fair and square on
the question and who has any knowledge
of the situation, cannot but admit that
the Grain Growers have done a good work
and are worthy of his support. If for
no other reason than from a selfish
standpoint the farmer should join in and
support the G. G. A.

The very fact that the Grain Growers
are an organized body in itself affords
a protection, because politicians, cor-
porations and combines realize that if

Farm of Robt. Thornton, Birtle, Man.

_cerertenatmesamatatnaearsovnetinnsau emanate Mesenteric tr een Nt ramen me Satna nae an eet imate tenet

of the movement has there been so many
social functions conducted as was the
case during the past winter. These have
taken the form of banquets, oyster
suppers, concerts, ete., and to the success
of almost all of them can be attributed
the enterprise and kindly interest of the
ladies.

While the summer season is opening
up fast the interest is not diminishing
any, and plans are ripening in many
associations to hold picnics, excursions,
plowing matches, etc., in addition to
conducting meetings at intervals during
the summer.

Bo te fe
“THRIVING” IS THE WORD
_ Activity in the Grain Growers’ Asso-
ciations throughout the province _ is
noticeable at present and will probably
continue,

The association in Manitoba is in a
thriving condition and its future never
looked brighter.

The Pilot Mound branch has been
organized for some few years and has been
the means of much benefit being derived
from amore intelligent handling of grain.
_It is well that the interest in the asso-
ciation should be maintained and their
membership added to and the farmers
of Pilot Mound district should see to it,
that they are not found lacking in appre-
ciation of the value of a strong and active
branch of the Grain Growers’ Assuciation.

Since the organization began it has
been of marked and ever increasing value

they overstep the mark they will have
a united force to oppose, not merely a
scattered and disorganized body.

Again, if the farmer does not agree
with some of the ideas advocated by the
association it is much better to join the
body, state his views there and fall in
line with the majority if unable to con-
vince the others that he is right.

In any event it is not up to any farmer
to knock the Grain Growers’ Association.
Its aim and objects are the advancement
of the interests of the agricullurist and
il is worthy of the support of those whose
condition it seeks to improve.—Pilot
Mound Sentinel.

Bee
AN ALTERNATIVE

At the last mecting of the Grain Grow-
ers’ Association, held in Arnaud on April
5, a resulution was passed to this effect—
That in event of the Dominion government
not taking over or getting control of the
terminal elevators at Fort William and
Port Arthur, that the executive bring
their influence to bear so that the farmers
could market their wheat direct to the
consumer; and we would advise the
forming of a joint stock company with
charter to build an elevator at Fort
William and in this way’we could load
our wheat direct to the boats. Owing
to the illness of our secretary-treasurer,
Mr. John Green, I was appointed to
act in his place at the last meeting.

J. A. McVICAR.
Arnaud.

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THE GUIDE’S PRIZE ESSAY CONTEST

The students of Manitoba Agricultural College wil. be glad to know that
the results of the contest will be announced very shortly. Principal Black of the
Agricultural Col’'ege and Mr. T. A. Crerar, President of The Grain Growers Grain
Co. who were the judges, have nearly completed their work and the results
willsoon be ready. The subject upon which the students wrote was ‘Co-operation

in the Distribution of Agriculiural Products.”
interested in this announcement when i: is made.

Readers of the Guide will be

April’20th, 1910

MANITOBA GRAIN
GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION

Honorary PRESIDENT :
J. W. SCALLION - ViIRDEN

PRESIDENT :
D. W. McCUAIG, Portage xa'Pratrixz

Vicr-PRESIDENT :
R.C/'HENDERS -— -

CuLross
SECRETARY-TREASURER :

R. McKENZIE - -

Directors :.

Peter Wright, Myrtle, R. M.
Wilson. Marvinghurst; F. W. Kerr,
Souris; G. H. Malcolm, Birtle; J S.
Woods, Oakville; R. J. Avison
Gilbert Plains.

Winnipeg

SEVEN JOINED AT MR. AVISON’S
MEETING

A meeting was held in the Empire
school house, Clanwilliam, March 26,
for the purpose of meeting Mr. R. J.
Avison, of Gilbert Plains. Mr. Avison
addressed the meeting for about an hour
and a half, and certainly gave us a very
good address. He dealt chiefly with the
elevator question and the advantages
that would accrue to the Grain Growers
by having a system of public owned
elevators.

While he regretted the action of the
government in not wishing to appoint
an entirely independent commission, he
thought the directors had done their duty
in naming certain men from which the
government might appoint a commission
when they had asked them to do so.

Mr. Avison finished up his splendid
address by urging the young men to join
the association. The result was that
seven men came forward and _ joined
the association.

E. E. BAILEY, Sec.-Treas.

Me te Me
Se ee

ONTARIO GOVERNMENT AIDS
CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT

The provincial secretary of the Ontario
government promised the Co-Operative
Union of Canada to introduce a_pro-
vincial co-operative bill at the last session
of the Ontario legislature. He- was,
however, compelled to withdraw it,
owing to the mercantile interests having
successfully “lobbied” against him, The
honorable gentleman, however, — sub-
stantially carried out his intentions by
introducing a one scction amendment
to the Companies Act of 1907, whereby
the department was authorized to intro-
duce such special provisions into the
charters of the Joint Stock Companies
Act as the minister, in his discretion,
might consider necessary in the public
interests. Immediately it was enacted
the department submitted to the Co-
Operative Union certain “special privi-
leges” which it proposed to incorporate
in the charters of all companies using
the word ‘ co-operative” in their titles

When sending photographs to us be

sure not to roll them but send them
flat.

and which were in substance the pro-
visions of the withdrawn bill. This
reduced the fee for incorpoartion of any
industrial co-operative society under the
Joint Stock Companies Act from $125 to
$10. The government will also give the
necessary assistance to enable the co-
operative societies to avoid altogether
the heavy law expenses connected with
the securing of charters by Joint Stock
Companies.

Ss Bo &
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BUYING AND SELLING CO-OPERA-
TIVELY

At a recent meeting of the Valley
River Grain Growers’ Association the
fo.lowing motion was passed: “ That
we consider it in the best interests of
our members that a list be prepared of
all stuck, seed grain and other articles
that we wish to buy and sell and that
the secretary keep such list with name
and address of such person and all par-
ticulars regarding same, and that the list
will be published in the local papers once
a month and paid for by the association.”
Carried. It is the intention to try to
get Dauphin branch to co-operate in this
idea.— Dauphin Herald.

April 20th, 1910

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SHOAL LAKE PICNIC WILL BE
' GREATER THAN EVER
The Grain Growers of Shoal Lake ‘are
already laying plans for their annual
picnie which will be held early in July.
They are now arranging with the railway
companies for excursion transportation,
and securing speakers. The Grain
Growers’ picnic at Shoal Lake is an annual
event for the farmers of north-western
Manitoba and they promise that this year
the gathering will be more interesting
and instructive than ever before.

NEW BRANCHES

The farmers in the Rosewood district,
east of Winnipeg, are arranging for a
mecting on April 23, with a view of or-
ganizing a branch of the G.G.A.

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The newly organized branch at Spring-
field proposes having a rally of the farmers
of that district on May 2. Not until
this spring did the farmers of this old
settled district take hold of the Grain
Growers’ movement. Now they are going
into it with a vim which augers well for
the success of the organization east of
the Red River.

SELF-RELIANCE

The best way to develop the Grain
Growers’ movement is for each branch
to cultivate enthusiasm, effort, and self-
sacrifice from within, rather than rely
upon outside support.

SUCCESS NEXT TIME

The importance attached by retail
merchants to the spread of the co-
operative method of buying by pro-
ducers and workers is indicated by the
strenuous efforts put forth by them
to kill the co-operative bill in the House
of Commons. They sent a deputation
of 500 strong from all parts of the country

one-seventh of the revenue; from 1793
to 1810 (during the period of the land
tax) land contributed one-ninth; from
which time to the present (1842) one
twenty-fifth only of the revenue has been
derived directly from land. Thus the
land which anciently paid the whole
of taxation, paid now only a fraction or
one twenty-fifth, notwithstanding the
immense increase that has taken place
in the value of rentals.”

At the present time, to give keener
point to Mr. Cobden’s words of nearly
seventy years ago, it should be said that
the land tax of 1692, to which he alluded,
yields, not 1-25th of the total revenue—
as in his day—but 1-18Gth.

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EXPERIMENT IN CATTLE
FEEDING

Lacombe Experimental Farm Feeds 18
Head During Winter at Big Profit

An experiment in cattle feeding, the
marked success of which may have a great
effect on the stock-raising industry in
Alberta, has recently been made at the
experimental farm at Lacombe. Eighteen
steers, of ordinary grade stock. were fed
for 110 days; increased in weight on the
average over 250 pounds a head, some
gaining as much as 800 pounds in that
time, and sold at a profit of from $10 to
$12 a head over purchase price and cost
of feed and care.

The object of the experiment was
to discover whether a better outlet for
rough grain could be found by feeding
it to cattle or by putting it on the market.
The result of the experiment has well
satisfied Superintendent Hutton, of the
Lacombe farm, that much greater profit
can be had by feeding to cattle than by
marketing direct.

Walked Grain to Market

The grain, instead of being drawn
to market, was driven there. The steers
were sold to the highest bidder, the

CARROLL PLOWING MATCH

The Grain Growers of Carroll, Man., will hold their annual plowing match
at the farm of President J. V. Patterson, on Wednesday, June 15th. Entries
for the provincial championship must be in the hands of the secretary, Fred H.
Carroll, Carroll, at least one week before the match. All these entries must be
from members of the societies holding annual plowing matches, and must be signed
by the president and secretary of the society. Further information can be secured

from Mr. Carroll.

at a probable cost of $10,000, to destroy
the bill. For the time being they have
succeeded. But incidentally they have
advertised from the Atlantic to the Pacific

that they are scared out of their wits.

by the organized introduction of co-
operative principles into Canada. They
have had transient success at Ottawa,
but the enormous progress made through
the unconscious co-operation of the
merchants themselves in the cultivation
of public sentiment and knowledge of
genuine co-operative principles through-
out the country will ensure success for
the co-operative bill at the next session
of parliament.

WELL WORTH REMEMBERING

In a speech in the House of Commons
on the 14th of March, 1842, Mr. Cobden
epitomized British fiscal history in words
that every British citizen should learn
by heart:

“Honorable gentlemen claimed the
privilege of taxing our bread on account
of their peculiar burdens in paying
the highway rates and the tithes. Why,
the land had borne those burdens before
corn laws had been thought of. The
only peculiar state burden borne by the
land was the land tax, and I will undertake
to show that the mode of levying that tax
is fraudulent and evasive, an example of
legislative partiality and injustice second
only to the corn law itself.§ . . . .
For a period of 150 years after the Con-
quest, the whole of the revenue of the
country was derived from the land.
During the next 150 years it yielded
nineteen-twentietlis of the revenue; for
the next century down to the reign of
Richard III, it was nine-tenths; during
the next seventy years to the time of
Mary it fell to about three-fourths;
from this time to the end of the Common-
wealth, land appeared to have yielded
one-half the revenues; down to the reign
of Anne it was one-fourth; in the reign. of
George III. it was one-sixth; for the first
thirty years of his reign the land yielded

J. Y. Griffin Company, at 534c, per
pound, live weight, with an allowance
at the point of shipment of five per cent.
shrinkage. This price was from 4 to 4%
a cent above the price usually paid for
the best beef. The eighteen steers arrived
at the North Edmonton Packing Plant
on Friday. April 1, making a car of as
choice cattle as has ever been purchased
by the Griffin Company, They were
killed’ on Saturday morning and were
found to be better than the average
jn quality of meat, particularly in fat.

Eighteen Pounds Feed per Day

These cattle, when purchased for the
purpose of experiment, were quite an
ordinary lot, but when sold at Lacombe
the average weight of the herd of 18 was
1,318 pounds. They were fed on cheap
grain, a mixture of barley, wheat and oats,
the wheat being frozen, and rough grain.
Of this mixture of grain, which could not
be sold on the market at an average
price of more than 85 cents a bushel,
each animal consumed probably from
16 to 18 poundsa day. The animals were
given heated water and received the best
of attention. They were kept loose in
a corall through the winter, with plenty
of good dry bedding and an adjacent
shelter shed. Superintendent Hutton is
well satisfied with the result of his exper-
iment and in the course of a few days will
make a full report of it to the department
of agriculture.

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Then, would the other pigs turn in
and help to drive him out?—Ex.

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Capital and

As the rule of capital asserts itself,
an ever increasing number of the title
deeds to farms become burdened with
notes and mortgages. First the farmers
slave early and late to keep clear of debt;
then they slave late and early to pay off
the debt. There is no difference in the
slavery from the point of view of comfort
and the fellows that are in debt often
have the best of it.

Those who advance anything to the
farmers make sure they don’t spend it
in luxuries, but only to increase the value
of the farms. Perhaps they build better
slave pens (houses) so that after their
day’s slavery they can more comfortably
rest and recuperate their labor power for
the morrow. As a rule the farms with
a place fit for human habitation have a
debt against their title deeds. As well,
many that have not got a place fit for
human beings to live in are in debt.

As the manager of an Edmonton loan
company said to a farmer not many
miles from here. “We find from 17
years’ experience on the prairies that
$800.00 is as much as the average farmer
can pay interest on.”

Yes, you have the privilege of selling,
and you all want to sell, yet only about
one out of every thousand can find a
buyer. Why? Because the capitalists
are in the land business. They can afford
to fish more extensively and therefore
eatch most all the buyers. I know dis-
tricts where farmers are offering farms
partly improved for from eight to fifteen
dollars per acre. In the same district
the C.P.R. are selling land unimproved
for from fifteen to twenty-five dollars
per acre.

Even if you do sell, what difference
does it make to the capitalist class?
Whoever is on the land must surrender
their labor power in the form of beef,
wheat or some other farm produce,
to the capitalist class. And what the
farmers receive is their wages, the market
price of labor power.

But, say, the defenders of the rule
of capital, the farmers own property.
Why own property if it increases your
slavery? Miners, carpenters and com-
mon laborers do not own property; they
work 8, 9 and 10 hours per day. Farmers,
their wives and children, thinking they
own property, or some day hoping to
own it, work 13, 14 and 15 hours per day.
The more a negro was worth the more
slavery was expected from him.

If the farmers who are free from
debt could sell they would have more
money than thrifty wage slaves could
save. Figure the number of hours the
farmers, their wives and children, work
per day, the number of days per year,
the number of years they have been on
the farms. Then suppose they were all
etting wages at 20 cents per hour and
iving as cheap as they do on the farm,
working as many hours per day, as many
days per year, for the same number of
years, I think they would have more
money in the bank than the average farm
could be soldfor. The difficulty would be
for the wage slave to get such steady
employment.

All In the Same Boat

The chief difference is that the farmers
have steady employment. Some say
if the farmers could sell the farms they
could start in business. They would soon
find that little business people like farm-
ers are wage slaves. Not even so certain
of steady employment. To buy a farm
or any other small property is merely
an attempt to get steady employment.

The rule of capital is made possible
only by exploiting labor under the guise
of wages, and in the last analysis all who
do socially necessary labor just get wages.
That is why we have in our platform the
abolition of the wage system by the
transformation of capitalist property into
the collective property of the working
class. Does that include the farms?
Sure thing; the farms are used to exploit
the farmers. The benefits go to the
capitalist class. They are therefore the
real owners; the farms are capitalist
property. Title deeds are supposed to
imply ownership to property, but the
real owners of any property are they

THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE

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who are deriving the benefits from the
operation of that property. None but
brazen political pimps will accuse the
farmers of being the beneficiaries of
the farms they operate.

To hear a farmer say ‘‘my” farm,
is the same as hearing a. wage-slave
say ‘ my” job. Heretofore the supposed
ownership was left with the farmers
to get them to work harder than they
would do if they knew they did not own
the farms. Capital can maintain its
rule only so long as it can deceive the work-
ing class. Perhaps the farmers have been
deceived more than any other part of
their class.—Western Clarion, Vancouver.

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Co-operation

The Opinions of a Western Farmer
Written for the Craik News

We hear a great deal about co-opera-
tion. It is the slogan of the day, the
watchward of the hour!

It is going on all over the world, all
around us, even in our own country.
Some are uniting for good causes and for
the uplifting and advancement of man-
kind; while a great number are doing so
for oppression and extortion. Look at
the great number of trusts and combines
that are almost daily being formed.
Which side are they on? For or against
thefarmer? Why have they been formed?
To kill all competition and to obtain
unlawful profits from the organized mass-
es. Why should farmers co-operate?

we are offering them more than they
need, and they will not take it, only at
their own price. Here we are producing
the best hard wheat in the world, and sell-
ing it below the inferior soft wheat.
They must have our wheat and if it were
marketed in a business-like manner
we should now be receiving several cents
per bushel above the soft wheat.

Space will not permit me to describe
fully how the combines are manipulating
the prices against you. Look into the
matter for yourself, and join with your
fellow farmer to fight for what is justly
yours. Don’t be the blind slave of soul-
less monopolies, whose only aim is greed
and whose only God is Gop.

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The Farmer’s Prosperity

When the consumer rises in protest
against high cost of living it is toward
the producer his wrath is aimed. The
“opulent” American farmer is generally
blamed for it all. But whoever believes
that the farmer has become a plutocrat
had best study the situation a little
more closely and he'll find that while
the products of the farm have advanced
in value, so also has the cost of growing
and marketing farm products advanced.

The man on the farm does not garner
an extraordinarily large profit for his la-
bor. More often the feeder’s returns
are merely nominal interest on his in-
vestment added to a fair wage for his
labors, while many times, as has been
the case recently, actual losses have been
sustained, ‘‘high-meat agitation” not-
withstanding.

The farmer’s prosperity has not come
from his live-stock-fceding operations,
nor entirely from his sales of grain. His
chief prosperity in the past decade has
been due to the enhancement in value
of his land. His percentage of profit
from gain and live-stock sales has not been

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The Grain Growers’ Association at this point numbers 176 strong

It is certainly not for the above purposes,
but simply in self-defence and to demand
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what justly belongs to them.

There are two important parts in farm-
ing—the production of a crop and the
selling of it. It is the selling end the
farmer knows the least about, and this
is where co-operation would be of great
benefit to the farmer.

Does it seem wise and_ reasonable
after a farmer has toiled early and late
and done his best to produce a good crop,
thut he should dump it all on the market
at once and take just what some combine
will offer him, which is just enough to
encourage him to go at it again.

Compare this with the method of any
manufacturer. After making his goods,
they are distributed to the different lo-
ealities, where he knows they will be re-
quired, and there offered for sale at a
fixed price, which a farmer must pay or
go without. There is no reason why the
farmers of this country should not be
co-operating and market their wheat in a
systematic and business-like manner.

If you have watched the Liverpool
market this fall, or any other fall, you will
have noticed Manitoba wheat is about the
lowest price. Why is this? We produce
the Best wHkAT in the world. It is
because of our poor way of marketing
our crop and the manipulating of prices
by the Winnipeg Grain Exchange.

The Old Country millers only need a
certain. per cent. of our hard wheat to
mix with the soft wheat of other coun-
tries. By selling all our wheat in the fall

large—smaller, in fact, than the per-
centage of profit made by most men en-
gaged in the great industries of the cities.
The man with a farm not only gives
his labor, which is worth as much as
the labor of the city man of more than
average ability, but in his business he
has invested an amount of money far
greater than the average business man of
the city.

He has an investment of thousands of
dollars in his land, which must by right of
business principle be made to pay him a
fair rate of interest in addition to a wage
for his labor.

No man in the city works harder than
does the farmer, and none is more entitled
to his share of prosperity. Still the farm-
er has not shared any greater degree of
prosperity than the average city merchant,
manufacturer or banker who has_ put
an equal amount of energy into his busi-
ness. The increase in values of the mer-
chant’s business and realty holdings in
the city stands as an offset to the en-
hanced value of farm lands. ;

In this high cost of living matter give
the farmer only his due. He has produced
the greatest crops possible under existing
conditions and the reason for price ad-
vancement in food products should not
be charged directly to him, since were
his labor cheaper to hire and the field
more liberally supplied, he could practice
more intensive farming and make his
lands yield greater returns. He has
done his best. Angels can do no more.—
Farmers’ and Drovers’ Journal.

April 20th, 1910

A Glorious Lesson

At the convention of the Manufacturers’
Association held in Winnipeg recently
the secretary, in his speech, said the or-
ganization was now so strong—having
grown in ten years from a membershi
of 182 to 2,500 in 1910—that it coaltL
if it choose, bring several millions of people
tc the verge of starvetion or paralyze
the industry of the whole Dominion.

Here we see the value of organization
and co-operation and in it a glorious lesson
for Western Canada where the farming
industry is the predominant one and
where farmers are now looking for legis-
lation which will be to their individual
betterment.

The Grain Growers’ Association has
done much good work and are now
an organization to be considered. If
they can accomplish so much with the
present comparatively small membership,
how much greater would be their in-
fluence if their membership: was the same
in comparison as that of the manufac-
turers? If it were the farmers could
say the same as the secretary of the
Manufacturers’ Association said, but,
unfortunately, only about 380 per cent.
of the farmers in the province are members
of the association, and, as a result, when
deputations from that association wait
on our governments, the governments
will say, as was said to a delegation at
Ottawa recently: ‘‘You are asking too
much in view of the comparatively small
body of farmers who belong to your
association.”

This is an age of unions and as a result
the working man is getting better treat-
ment than ever before, then why not a
farmers’ union?

In talking along this line to a man
recently he said: ‘‘When I was on the
railroad I belonged to the union. The
man that didn’t belong was a ‘scab,’
and was treated as such. Now I am a
farmer and I think the farmer that
doesn’t belong to the Grain Growers’
Association ought to be labelled ‘a-scab’
and treated as such.”

If the farmers expect to make the pro-

ess they should along the line of better
egislation in their interests they should
not only combine but should hang to-
gether and fight with the majority.—
Hamiota Echo.

CHOICE

Not what we have, but what we use,
Not what we see, but what we choose;
These are the things that mar, or bless,
The sum of human happiness.

The thing nearby, not that afar

Not what we seem, but what we are;
These are the things that make or break,
That give the heart its joy or ache.

Not what seems fair, but what is true.
Not what we dream, but good we do;
These are the things that shine like gems.
Like stars in fortune’s diadems.

Not as we take, but as we give,

Not as we pray, but as we live;

These are the things that make for peace,
Both now and after time shall cease.

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COST OF CO-OPERATIVE
PACKING PLANT

J. H. Monrad, in an interesting article
appearing in the January 14 Issue of
Wallace’s Farmer, says, relative to the
cost. of a co-operative packing plant in
America:

“In conclusion let me _ recapitulate
the conditions which I deem necessary
for the success of a co-operative slaughter
house: .Enough farmers within a radius
of eight or ten miles) willing to breed and
feed not less than 20,000 tainly uniform
pigs annually; to guarantee under legal
contract their delivery for eight or ten
years to the factory, subject. to a
fine of not less than $3.00 per head sold
elsewhere, to guarantee, one for all and
all for one, the capital needed, which,
on a rough estimate, should be double
that needed in Denmark, or about
$100,000; and to secure a competent
man to design and build a factory, as well
as an honest and experienced manager
and other employes.”

In other words, while co-operation
brings results in money, in order to get
them a clear idea of its monetary obli-
gations is essential, and to undertake
an enterprise without due thought and
safeguarding of this feature is to invite
failure.—Farm Stock and Home,

April 20th, 1910

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We thank Thee for all that is bright;
The gleam of the day and the stars of
the night, ;
The flowers of our youth and the fruits
of our prime, ie
And the blessings that march down the
athway of time.
We thank Thee, O Father of All, for the
power
Of aiding each other in life’s darkest hour,
And all the soul-help that sad souls under-
stand.

[Dear Friends:—The above lines are
to help a dear reader who signed herself
“Broken Hearted”? and I feel sure that if
she repeats them every day strength and
hope will come back to her. The burdens
of life press heavy upon us but there is
never a life so sad that there is not one

who attend to all calls free of charge.
A home was found for a little child, and
I trust God will make her a comfort to
her new mother. Three girls have been
given the chance to redeem the past,
and in each case are doing well. Harold
Green is also doing well, and very happy-
Our consumptive girl is also doing
well and feels able to go to work this
spring and her mother also is stronger.
Our dear little consumptive girl, age
thirteen, has every comfort, but we are
afraid she cannot last long.

Over 1,000 garments have been dis-
tributed,. besides groceries, eggs, 96 quarts
of milk, meat, cushions, bed rests, pillows,
candies, picture books, etc.

Some 350 visits were made to the sick.
Two old Iadies, sisters-in-law, have been
helped and comforted and work found for
one of them. A situation was found for
a young girl and an outfit provided.
A baby’s outfit was provided for’ several
poor women, who had nothing with which
to clothe ‘their little ones. How can I
thank my loving readers who have helped
to make all this beautiful work possible.
They have packed, mended and darned
and washed the clothing before sending
it to me. Never a day passed but. at
least three hearts were brightened and sent
on the way rejoicing.

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WELCOME THIS DEAR LITTLE
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Dear. Marie:—I have been reading the

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gleam of brightness. Just to breathe
the fresh air, to look upon the stars at
night, and the glorious sunlight, should
make us thankful indeed that we can

- still work to make others happy, and in

doing so, bring at least peace to our own
hearts.
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You will be glad to hear that the Guild
still continues to grow and that the work
of Sunshine has proved a blessing to so
Every
Thursday our Redwood Sunshine Club,
in Winnipeg, holds its meeting, and at
every gathering several new members
have been enrolled. Wednesday is the
day arranged for the mothers’ sewing
meeting and great preparations are being
made for the Sunshine bazaar to be held
by headquarters if all goes well, in June.
On Wednesday the presidents of the
neighboring Winnipeg circles meet to
report on the work done by their branches
and gather fresh ideas and encourage
each other in the joyous work. The
Weston Club has done great work, two
families being taken care of, and every-
thing provided to tide them over the time
of sickness. Another poor woman was
sick and in a very bad shape, and again
these devoted souls took care of this case
also, and even paid the doctor’s bills.
We have now three Sunshine doctors

letters of your corner and would like to
become a member. So am sending in
my application. I have been wondering
if I could send some of the prairie flowers
to the Winnipeg people in need of sunshine.
But later on I will have some garden
flowers to send.’ I am sending 25 cents
to the emergency fund, from my brother
and sister and myself. Also the two cent
stamp for the postage of the membership.
From your little friend,

DORA GOODDAY.
Saltcoats, Sask.

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THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE

Conducted by “ISOBEL”

XY Music on the Farm {2

Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks or bend a knotted cak, by magic numbers

and persuasive sound.

Perhaps nowhere in all the land will
one find less music than in the average
farm home. Yet nowhere is music so
sadly needed. Remote from neighborly
association, attending church — service
intermittently as weather and roads
permit, rarely enjoying concert or band
performance, it must be conceded that
the farm family is bereft of a great and
very pleasurable privilege when excluded
from the use of some good musical in-
strument, prefereably the piano, at all
times and seasons. Nor is_ the loss
lessened by the knowledge that stern
necessity ties the purse strings and refuses
the expenditure required for the purchase
of a‘fine music box; or it may be there is
no music because, as one so often hears,
“there is no one to play” the piano.
Where this is the obiection, the way is
easy for there is now on the market an
instrument known as the pianola piano,
which really plays itself. One does not
need to touch the keys at all. The general
structure of this piano resembles all
the others, the difference being only
in additional attachments built inside
the usual case. There are pedal attach-
ments that the operator uses to keep
the machinery in motion that may move
the keys and produce exactly the tones
and effects that the skilled musician does.
Anyone can operate it. There is, too,
for those having the ordinary piano

but no al uepeoede a cabinet containing
practically the same machinery as already
indicated, the difference being that

metal fingers reach out and strike the
keys as would the human fingers, were
they employed. The cost of the cabinet
alone is somewhere near a couple of hun-
dred dollars, and it must not be forgotten
that it will attach to any piano.

In too many cases, however, necessity
no longer, but habit, secures the purse
against all comers, and the family’s
appeal for a piano falls upon the deafest
of deaf ears.

While one can understand the inroads
of requisite economy upon the enforced
habit of long hard years, and can excuse
what seems apparent parsimony where
there is lacking a sense of loss for so
intangible yet potent a factor as music
in harmonizing the various and often
confiicting domestic factions, still it is a
pity that habit should control justice,
or that inappreciativeness in the house-
hold’s self-styled head should — bring
famine to the rest, whose desires are so
different. Among the manifold lessons
that experience imprints upon the close
observer, stands one most valuable—
the needful acquisition of that rare and
vital attribute simply and _ familiarly
known as “‘tact,” or the ability to secure
what one greatly wishes from an unwishing
and unsympathetic source.

To achieve a victory by patient, tactful,
cheerful perseverance where success
seemed impossible is victory indeed,
and to the discouraged music-lover,
between whom and his earnest hope
stands an adamantine parent opposed to
the expenditure of either money or time
in music such a victory is waiting to be
won.

That anyone should require conversion
to a belief in the efficacy of music as an
agent of purest merit, is curious surely,
when so many evidences of it confront
us on every hand. Who has not felt
the pulses quicken and the long dormant
energies glow anew with conviction of
life’s worth-while-ness through the electric
magic of well-renedred music? Can it
be refuted that music heard at the psycho-
logical hour restores hope, revives courage,
soothes grief, reanimates the depressed,
erases. old “‘scores,” allays suspicion,

enlarges faith, stimulates energy, brightens
cherished memories, drowns care, rebuilds
crumbling ideals, smites divisions, assu-
ages pain, lessens strife, sweetens reverses,
rejuvenates age? :

Through the glamor of inspiring
martial music, battles are fought and
victories won (yea, and battles lost);
animated. humanity marches onward,
dauntless and indifferent whether to
defeat or conquest; patriots enthrall their
doubting adherents and lead them where
they will.

not all the leaned skill of science nor the
specious art of logic can impress. Truly
the pictures seen with the mind are
finer than those seen with the eye, and
music is the matchless artist.

See

COOKING FOR THRESHERS MADE
EASY

Editor Fireside:—I should very much
like if you will give me space to write a
few lines in answer to ‘‘Farmer’s Wife
(Slave).”

I am also a farmer’s wife, and we, too,
farm 640 acres. 1 have two men to work
for all the year round, besides the usual
gardening and poultry. As “Slave”
says, threshing time is a truly hard time;
we stook thresh here, and.about 25 real
hearty men sit down to my tables. three
times a-day; also I take out lunch about
4 p.m., the usual custom in this district,
which I think is not unreasonable, as
supper is often not till 8 o'clock. I
have a girl friend to help me at that time,
and must say get on fine. I don’t want
any more help.

Regarding the time the men get out
to the machine, that part does not trouble
me. I leave all outside affairs to my
husband to manage; as long as the men
are in punctual to meals, and it is his
business (and profit) to get them off the
place as quickly as poeetbles

I wonder is ‘‘Slave’”’ methodical in
her preparations for the threshers? If
not, that will account for an awful lot

One of Nature’s Beauty Spots

Under the spell of music, sweet and sad,
the gates of the celestial mansions swing
ajar and the famished soul, untrammelled,
by its earthly housing, enters the vestibule
of futurity, glimpsing its limitless sea
of gandeur, ever widening out, away
beyond. the frail mentality of mortals;
and as it widens in soft gleam or mazy
splendor, brings deep conviction — of
eternal kinship with the Master that

of work to be done while they are on the
place. For instance, I get what I know
will be quite sufficient bread baked and
in the cellar a day or two before I expect
them; also make stacks of pies and fruit
cakes, also vanilla, almond and sponge
cakes, which will only take a few minutes
to ice when wanted. All I have to cook
when the men are here is meat, vegetables,
pudding and hot buns (for lunch); besides

SOB ESN PENG ESN GS PEN PE RC PEER SS PEL ESN BPE

THE RAIN

By Harrier Crocker LeRoy

A million little fairy feet all dancing
overhead—

Oh, don’t I love to hear it when I’m
snuggled up in_ bed!

When mother takes the light away and
says, ‘Now, go to*'sleep,”

And I lie there and listen to the fairies’

little feet!

I think of all the thirsty things out in the
field and wood,

And how they drink the raindrops in—
oh, it must feel good!

And how the tiny blades of
stretching up to. see

Where all the patter comes from and
whatever can it be.

grass come

I think of mother’s rain-barrel and of the
: waterspout,

And how the water rushes in and tumbles
to get out,

And how the birds out in the woods must
snuggle down to keep

Their baby-birdies warm and dry beneath
their breasts asleep.

I think of all the puddles there'll be out in
the rain,

And of my brand new rubber boots—

just Beare for the rain,

And there I lie and listen to the fairies
overhead— :

Oh, don’t you love to hear them when
you're snuggled up in bed?

—Youths’. Companion.

GROWING OLD

A little more tired at the close of day,
A little less anxious to have our way;
A little less ready to scold and blame,
A little more care for a brother’s name;
And so we are nearing the journey’s end.
Where time and eternity meet and blend

A little less care for bonds and _ gold,
A little more zest in the days of old;
A broader view and a saner mind,

And a little more love for all mankind;
And so we are faring adown the way
That leads to the gates of a better day.

A little more love for the friends of youth,
A little less zeal for established truth,
A little moie charity in our views;

A little less thirst for the daily news;
And so we are folding our tents away,
And passing in silence at close of day.

A little more leisure to sit and dream,
A little more real the things unseen,
A little nearer to those ahead,

With visions of those long loved and dead;
And so we are going where all must go,
To the place the living may never know.

A little more laughter, a few more tears,
And we shall have told our increasing
years; A
The mane is closed and the prayers are
said,
And we are part of the countless dead.
Thrice happy, then, if some soul can say:
“TI live because he has passed miy way.’,
ollin J. Wells.

FBO RIO GP GEOG RTH OGIO AP Oso OP NORTE OIaEOOG Raabe we

April 20th, 1910

the buns they get for lunch iced or fruit
cake, salmon or meat sandwiches and tea.
I boil a big pot and steamer full of po-
tatoes for dinner, and the same for supper,
and always find | have ample over for
fried potatoes for breakfast. I do not
think I have one complaint to make—
in fact rather look forward to the threshers
coming. If we cannot get threshed,
what is the use of farming? Surely we
are not going to make ourselves unhappy
over a little extra work. It does not
last much over a week anyway, sometimes
not that. I always tell the threshers that
I’m very pleased to see them come and
more so to see them go.

I really feel very sorry for ‘‘Slave”—
the daily «duties must indeed be heavy
fetters for her, for nothing can make a
person so wretched as to feel that what
she is doing is not a labor of love, but
“‘hard labor’’ or even slavery,

Thanking you for’ the opportunities
afforded by the ‘Fireside’ for mutual
aid and encouragement.

Yours truly,
A HAPPY FARMER’S WIFE.
Shoal Lake, Man.

Mo eM
ee

DOMESTIC SCIENCE FEES

Dear Isobel:—I am one of those un-
fortunate non-residents mentioned in
the calendar outlining the household
science course at the Manitoba Agricul-
tural College. Since I first heard of a
movement to the effect that there. was
to be such a course at the college 1 have
intended to take it, as I felt confident
that the charges would be very reasonable.
So you can imagine my feelings when
reading over the calendar to find that
(besides other charges) I had to pay
six times the fees of those living twelve
miles from my home.

I think I may safely say that the Sas-
katchewan government has made some
provision for supporting the boys from
Saskatchewan who attend the regular
course, so I think that they ought to
do the same for the girls; because, as
every one knows, it is harder for girls
to earn money than boys.

As my father is rather well off it may
not be. quite impossible for me to go,
but, as you state in Tue Gurpr, every
farmer is not capable of paying for
such a course for his daughters, and
still less chance there is for girls that
have to support themselves. It takes
the average girl a long time to save money
enough to pay for this course.

I enjoy reading the letters regarding
“Votes for Women,” and “The Dower
Law,” especially those in favor of it.
As I think I am too young to form an
opinion on these things I will not say
anything on the subject at present, but
if allowed, I may do so later.

Wishing your paper all success,

I remain,
Sincerely yours,

THELMA,

{Note.—If the Saskatchewan and Al-
berta governments make special arrange-
ments for the admission of boy students
to. the Manitoba Agricultural College,
it is quite possible and the barest justice
that the same arrangements shall be made
for the girls. This matter should be
brought to the notice of those governments
by someone qualified to do so. Your
M.P.P. would be the proper source through
whom an appeal could be made.

TROUBLE FOR HUBBY

At a recent tea-party, where the fare
provided could not, by any stretch of
courtesy, be termed palatable, a guessing
game was instituted, and the lady who
won it was asked to say what she would
have as a prize. é

She greatly flattered her young hostess
by requesting a slice of the cake ‘with
which some. of them had’ desperately
struggled at tea-time.

‘Why did you ask for that stuff?’’ a
disappointed and still hungry youth asked
her. ‘‘You know very well it isn’t fit
to eat.”

“Ty have a definite purpose in view,”
answered the young lady, carefully placing
the piece of cake where there would be
no possibility of her: forgetting it. ‘I
mean to make my husband eat it—if
necessary, to force it down his throat,
crumb by crumb, and thus convince him
that somewhere in the wide, wide world
there is an even worse cook than he
imagines his inexperienced young wife
to be.”

April 20th, 1910

THE DISCOURAGED BROTHER

Say, brother, what’s your trouble?
Ain’t the old world used you
right?

Look as though you’d given up hopin’ ’s
though you’d lost heart to fight;

Have you found out that it’s useless
to expect to stand a show?

If so, tell me how you’ve done it—tell
me how you really know.

Ain’t you gettin’ what you’re earning’?
Can’t you find no work to do?

Have you got to thinkin’ mebby God
has got it in for you?

S’pose you've got a sort of notion you’d
be way in advance

With the winners if you’d only had
some other feller’s chance.

Come, now, brother, let’s be honest—
let’s git right down to bed rock;

Don’t you, when you’re workin’, always
keep a-lookin’ at the clock?

Don’t you just do what you have to,
in a slip-shod sort of way—

Not because you like to do it, ‘but because
you want the pay?

Yes, I thought so! You’ve a notion
you've been cheated, hain’t you,
now?

Got a sort of dark suspicion everything
is wrong, somehow;

Think the world owes you a livin’ and
has tried to shirk its debt—

When it rains you want dry weather,
when it’s dry you want it wet.

Have you ever stopped to wonder why
the world should ever care

Whether you are feeling happy or are
clingin’ to despair?

Have you riz to such importance that
it’s likely anyone

Can be feelin’ jealous of you or belittle
what you’ve done?

Guess the trouble with you, brother, is
you just don’t care to try, y

And you think the sun quits shinin’
when a speck gits in your eye;

Mebby things would look some brighter
if you’d give up findin’ fault

And git all your pores well opened while
you try to earn your. salt.

—S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Equal parts of turpentine and linseed
or sweet oil makes an excellent homemade
furniture polish. Wipe off all dust first.
Then apply with a woollen rag. Rub until
dry with a large clean soft flannel. The
result will be good.

fo ge fe

A good hair tonic and shampoo is made
by beating slightly the yolks of one or
two fresh eggs, add a little cold soft water
to thin; apply to the scalp by separating
the hair in strands and rubbing in lightly
with the finger tips. Wash in three or
four waters. Use no soap.

a te

It is said that a cloth wrung out of hot
vinegar and water and laid on the fore-
head as hot as can be borne, will soon
relieve a headache.

5 Be ee

If salt is added to gasoline, spots may
be removed from the most delicate ma-
terial without leaving a ring around the
cleaned spot.

ae he

When a pan of gems or cake is taken
out of the oven, put the pan upon a
cloth wrung out of cold water, and the
cakes will not stick.

fe fe

Stitch on a machine the outer edge
of the stamped scallops you wish to em-
broider, and they will not ravel when
laundered.

Re fe fe

Few people know how to boil water.
Fill the teakettle with freshly drawn
water and bring quickly to a boil. Then
use immediately. By letting it stand
and steam the good water is evaporated,

THE GRAIN GROWERS’

leaving the lime, iron and dregs in the
kettle. This would make some people
ill, and is worse than no water at all.
OX

To Remove Fruit and Vegetable Stains
from the Fingers.—Before washing the
hands after paring fruit or vegetables,
hold a lighted match so that the fumes
from the sulphur will spread over the
stains; wash off in clear water without
soap when it will be found that they are
all nearly gone, if not entirely.

THE ROAD TO PEACE OF MIND

Celebrating his ninety-second birthday,
Dr. S. R. Millard, Chicago’s oldest
physician, gives the folate as his
recipes for peace of mind and longevity:

“Live sanely and moderately.

“Be temperate in your habits.

“Keep interested in your work.

‘Be alive to the things of the present.

“Keep sweet.”

“These recipes,” says Dr. Millard,
“‘apply as ‘much to a woman ‘as they do
to a man. In fact, I think most women
need them more than most men. I
think the two best recipes of those I
have given, are, ‘Be temperate in your
habits,’ and ‘Keep sweet.’ If we could
get everybody to thinking this way,
we would have a very happy and contented
world. The keeping of the disposition
sweet has a wholesome effect upon the
liver and the stomach, and’ contributes
much to the general good health. Join
to this sweetness control of habits, and
the secret of mind ease is out.”

COU?
Me ye te

RIVAL CLUBS

The man who had been keeping his
seat in the Underground spoke at last to
the woman hanging on to a strap who had
been eyeing him intently for some time.

“I know I ought to get up and let
you have my seat, madam,”’ he said, ‘‘but
I’m pledged against that sort of thing.
I have just joined the Sit Still Club.”

“That is all right, sir,’’ replied the
woman. ‘‘You musn’t mind me staring
at you so hard. I am a member of the
Stand and Stare Club.”

After which she continued to stand and
stare. at him in such a fierce manner
that he finally got up, waved her into his
seat, and said, “I think I’ll resign from
my club and join yours, madam.”

“A BILLET DUE.”

Smith hurried into the reception room
and picked up a letter in a tiny blue
envelope, which was addressed in a fine,
feminine handwriting. He gave a little
shout of joy and bounded up the stairs
to shut himself up in his room to read
the delicately scented missive. He tore it
open and read as follows:

“You are requested to pay your tailor
bill at once—thirty-five dollars balance
due.

“‘Yours, awaiting a prompt remit-
tance, J. H. Wiggs, ’Varsity Tailor.”

““P.S.—We send this reminder in this
form in order that it may reach your
notice, since our regular business station-
ery failed toimpress you.” :

Smith hurried away to pay the bill.

“What’s the matter with the train?
asked the lecturer, vexed with the speed
they were making.

“If you don’t like this train,” the
conductor retorted, ‘‘you can get off and
walk.”

“By jove!” said the lecturer, “I’d do
it, but a reception committee is to meet
me at my destination, and I don’t want
to get in ahead of time.” —Post Dispatch.

ee

William, a little country boy of. six,
was snowbound with his mother at the
home of an aunt, twenty miles from his
own home. The two, who had driven
over in a sleigh just to spend the day,

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were forced to remain three nights and
were supplied by the hostess with gar-
ments to sleep in. There being no small
boys in his aunt’s family, William was put
to bed in one of his little cousin Deborah’s
nightgowns, very indignant at having to
wear anything with so many frills and
lace trimmings around the neck and on
the sleeves. “I won’t stand it, mummer,”
he loudly protested on the second night,
“I won’t wear anything so girly! “I'll
run away, you see if I don’t and perish
in a snowdrift before I’ll put that thing
on again. Why, rather than wear that—
that valentine nightgown—I’ll — sleep

UNSUBDUED

I have hoped, I have planned, I have
striven.
To the will I have added the deed;
The best that was in me I’ve given,

I have played, but the gods would not
heed.

I have dared and reached only disaster,
I have battled and broken my lance;
I am bruised by my pitiless master
Whom the weak and the timid call
chance,

I am old, I am bent, I am cheated
Of all that. Youth urged me to win,
But name me not with the defeated—
To-morrow, again I begin.
—S. E. Kiser.

Me te
me ae te

REMEMBERED CROMWELL

In a town in the north of England,
where the pension officer was seeing after
the various old-age pension claimants,
one old woman particularly puzzled him
by her inability to give him any clue to
her age. ;

“Is there nothing important. which
you remember?” he asked, kindly.

Naw, nothing,’’ she said, dejectedly.
Suddenly her face brightened up, and she
blurted out, “Sure, I mind now, I heard
my father saying I was born the night
Cromwell died.”

«,, Nonsense!” said the pension officer;
that couldn’t be, for Cromwell died in
1658.””

“T don’t care a rap what you say,”
said the old lady, “tor I remember wall
my father telling me often that I was born
the night Cromwell died.”

Cromwell, it turned out, was the name
of an old nag belonging to her father.

Me te
ye eh

“Physical culture, father, is perfectly
lovely. To develop the arms I grasp
this rod by one end and move it slowly
from right to left.”

a “Well, well,”? exclaimed her father;

what won’t science discover?z If that
rod had straw at the other end you’d be
Sweeping,”

Me Me am
me te

City Editor—Here’s a mighty good
story about a young fellow who runs
away with a chorus girl.

Night Editor—What’s that! A good
story? Why, it’s been done to death.

City Editor—This one hasn’t. It’s
an absolute novelty. The young fellow
is neither a millionaire nor a_ Pitts-
burgher.—Plain Dealer.

Me ate
me ae

UNDERSTOOD

The loving word, the kindly glance,
These are the gifts we need;

The sympathy which understands,
And glorifies each deed.

Give of yourself, your time, your strength,
Give to the journey’s end;
Then comes the swift glad smile at last,
When He shali call us ‘‘ Friend.”
JEAN REID,

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A teacher who was taking a class in
geography finally asked:

““Name the principal zones.”

One little bright fellow answered:

“The two principal zones are masculine
and feminine; the masculine is the tem-
peas and the intemperature, and the
eminine is the frigid and the horrid.”

oo &

Among the boyhood memories most
cherished by some men I know, is that of
the ‘‘treat” that their mother used to
give them and their boy friends after a
vigorous siege of wood-sawing or lawn~
mowing.—Christian Advocate

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It Will Stop the Spoils System
in Canada

Continued from Page 7

wrote: ‘‘The referendum is the key
that will unlock the door to every on-
ward movement. It will give us new
reforms as fast as the people want them,
without the necessity of waiting until
the millionaires and politicians are ready
for the curtain to go up. It will give
the people the power of voluntary move-
ment; it will bring the public mind into
connection with the motor muscles of
the body politic; it will tend ,to the
pruification of politics and the elevation
of government. It is not the people
who put up jobs on themselves but
corrupt influences in our legislative
bodies; the referendum will kill the
corrupt lobby and close the doors against
fraudulentlegislation. Legislative bribery
derives its power from the concentration
of temptation resulting from the power
of a few legislators to take final action.

The Broadway Surface Railway Com-
pany of New York paid aldermen $20,000
apiece for the Broadway franchise steel,
which cost the company in bribes and
lobby expenses about $500,000; but how
much would it have cost to buy up a
referendum vote in the city? When the
Reading road was asking for special
terminal privileges in Philadelphia, the
company put $5,000 at the service of
each member of the select council and a
noted political boss, who was in the coun-
cil at the time and had large influence
there, told a prominent lawyer of my
acquaintance that there were only three
council men who refused the money and
that he (the boss) was not one of the
three. I am told that in Massachusetts
legislators at the state house can be
bought for $500 a vote on important
measures. It is said that in Washington
state ordinary legislation can be pur-
chased at $200 a head. ‘

A legislator may be subjected to suc-
cessful pressure by trusts.and combines
and railroads but the citizens are too
numerous, too much interested in their
own pocket-books, and too wide-awake
to their own welfare to be bribed or

threatened into giving away their property .

or endowing big corporations with privi-
leges and powers to be used to the dis-
advantage and oppression of the donors.
Professor Bemis tells of a corporation
voting $100,000. to buy the Chicago
council as calmly as they would vote
‘to buy a new building. Under the
referendum, such procecdaings would not
take place because they would be of no
use. The referendum destroys the power
of legislators to legislate for personal
ends.

What Direct Legislation Will
; Accomplish

By the referendum the force of partisan-
ship will diminish. Party success will
‘no longer mean power to build the laws
of a city or state for one or more years,
and the intensity of party feeling will
diminish as the value of the prize to be
won is lessened. The~ weakening of
partisanship will re-act on the executive
department. and the spoils system will

have less hold on the governmetit, even |
before civil service regulations are thor-

oughly formed and enforced.
The initiative and referendum will

destroy the private.monopoly of law mak- |

ing. ‘The public ownership of monopolies
will destroy the chief corruption fund.
With direct legislation the influence of
employers over the votes of their employees
will be diminished factors in elections.
The power of rings and bosses will be
greatly reduced by the referendum.
Nothing will do more than the referendum
for the cause of civil service and the
awakening of a strong interest in politics
and the ballot on the part of our best
people. ;

The referendum will simplify as well
as purify elections.. It is much easier
to vote upon measures than men. A
man is a cyclopeaia of measures bound
in mystery; even his character is. a
puzzle, for the main business of opposing
politicians is to fling mud at each other's
candidates until it is impossible to tell
how much is mud and how much is man,
or some other animal.

After throwing all the mud they can
dig up or manufacture, the next duty
of the politicians is to pile up a lot of high
sounding words into sentences that will
come as near as possible to covering
any conceivable thing that a council,

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legislature, or congress may do, and call
it a platform, to remind us of its likeness
of the board contraption at the business
end of a summer vacation,. used for the
speakers to stand on during the rumpus,
and afterwards cut up for kindling.
Instead of a tangled mass of ignorance
and vituperation the referendum will
bring to the voters a series of clear-cut
measures each to be decided on its own
individual merits. Shall we have pro-
portional representation? Shall women
vote on the same terms as men? Shall
street car companies be required to
put effective fenders and vestibules on
the trolley cars? Shall towns and cities
have the right to build or buy, own and
operate municipal gas and electric light
works as they wish? Shall they own and
operate the street railways? There are
questions easily understood and capable
of decision without the perplexing ad-
mixture of’ personal consideration or
inquiries as to whether a democratic
candidate for office did not behave with
becoming modesty in early life or loves
liquor too well, or whether the tariff
ought to be higher or silver freer, or wheth-
er the hard times or the good times came
in under one administration or another.”

The referendum will simplify and digni-
fy the law; it will elevate politics as a
profession and bring the best men again
into political life. It will help to bring
out a full vote of the better and more
intelligent citizens, while it would tend
as a rule to eliminate the votes of the less
intelligent. It would tend to the eleva-
tion of the press and would have a
profound educational effect.

E: HS.

OO
THE AWAKENING

Last night I was invited by a social
friend to dine; we ate of lobster salad,
and partook of sparkling wine. We
drank to Bryan’s health ofttimes and
wished Bill Taft good luck, and passed
a pleasant evening till the hour of twelve
had struck. Thén I bade my friend good
evening, and went home and to bed,
when I had such a peculiar dream—I
dreamed that I was dead. My chance to
vote for capital was now forever gone.
A mighty host came passing by, and I
was beckoned on. We marched. up to
the golden gate; a voice said: ‘‘ Who comes
there?” ‘“‘We are capitalist voters.”
Suid Peter, “I declare!” ‘Your occu-
pation?” Peter asked. ‘‘ We are tillers
of the soil, artists, merchants, mechanics;
in short, we’re those who toil.” ‘On
foot or mounted?” Peter asked. ‘On
foot,” our leader cried. ‘‘Then pass
right on,’’ St. Peter said, ‘“‘you cannot
come inside.” In sorrow, then, we turned
away to the shade of an old oak tree,
to ponder o’er our awful fate and see what
we could see. Another crowd came to
the gate. Thesame voice: ‘* Who comes
there?” ‘“‘We are democrats and _ re-
publicans.”” It made St. Peter swear.
‘““Your occupation, sirs?” he asked.
““We have none. Sir, you see, we ruled
the earth with wealth untold; our power
we bring to thee. Please let usin. We'll
buy your bonds and pave your streets
with gold; of course, we’ll hold your

mortgage, too.” With a frown, says
Peter, “‘ Hold! On foot or mounted,
sirs?”’ he asked. “On foot,” their

spokesman said. ‘‘Then pass right on
to other spheres, these streets you cannot
tread.”’ Then brazenly they turned away
and came down by the tree, when suddenly
they turned to us and said, ‘‘ Here, fel-
lows, see! We have a novel plan, whereby
we all may go inside. You fellows get
on hands and knees, and on you we will
ride.”” We grovellec in the dust for them,
as on earth we'd done before, and, they
astride, we boldly marched up to the gate
once more.

‘*Who is it comes there?”’ Peter asked.
“Your servants, sir. You see, we left
the earth with all its cares, so now we
come to thee.” “On foot or mounted,
sirs?”’ he asked. ‘‘ Mounted,” one fellow
cried. ‘‘Then come into eternal bliss,
but leave your beasts outside.”

Our riders told us to go down, but
Satan said in turn, ‘You fellows cannot
enter here, you are too green to burn.”
The moral, Brother Workingman, — is
most too plain to tell; capital rides us
to power, and we can go to h—l.—A. J. P.,
Hutchinson, Kan.

COCO

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‘power and miserable is the man who

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Telephone 766

April 20th, 1910

Summary of The Week’s News of The World

GREATEST INRUSH OF SETTLERS
~ EVER KNOWN

‘During the week ending last Saturday
approximately three thousand people
arrived in Winnipeg from Europe. This
week was by no means an exceptional
one, the figures quoted being merely an
illustration of the movement westward
which has been going on for a number
of weeks past and which will continue for
a great many weeks to come. The tide
of immigration is not even yet flowing
in its fullness and the next few months
will unquestionably witness by far the
greatest inrush of settlers that western
Canada has known. It is apparent that
the emigration from Great Britain to
Canada is in excess of the combined
emigration from all the countries of
continental Europe. The classes of set-
tlers who are coming from Great Britain
are also admittedly superior to those
who came five or ten years ago. The
shipment of hopeless people from the
most congested portions of the great
cities of England by philanthropic so-
cieties has now wholly ceased. The
British people who are arriving this year
are asking for no favors and are abundant-
ly able to take care of themselves. They.
are bringing with them considerable
sums in the way of capital, and many of
them are going directly to farm lands.

The American immigration is said to
amount to 500 people every day of the
week. Each week there are also approxi-
mately 500 cars of settlers’ effects. The
rush through Portal has become so great
that the Canadian Pacific this week
have men at work laying four additional
tracks there. They are also building
there a platform 1,000 féet long. Dr.
Hilton, the chief assistant in Ottawa
to Dr. Rutherford, is established there,
to protect Canada against the intro-
duction of horses with infectious diseases,
The number of inspectors there have been
doubled by the Dominion government
and everything possible is being done
to protect. settlers from. unnecessary
delay. —

The movement from Ontario appears
to be as large as ever. Homeseekers
trains arrive in Winnipeg from Toronto
almost daily and they bring to the west
the ‘best: of citizens.

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~ NEW ADVERTISING MANAGER

Wesley McCurdy, advertising manager
of the Winnipeg Free Press for the past
six years, and the best known advertising
man in Western Canada has severed his
connection with that.paper to take
charge of the advertising department
of Tue Grain Growers’ Guipe. In
making such a change Mr. McCurdy
recognized a fact that is now becoming
generally known, viz., that THe Grain
Growers’ Guipr was the most. pro-
gressive paper in Western Canada and
had a future before it that was not to be
equalled by any other publication.

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C. P. R. WILL ENLARGE WINNIPEG
STOCKYARDS.

. The C. P.. R. company is going to
construct and equip larger stockyards
in Winnipeg.

This statement was. made by con-
troller McArthur, of Winnipeg, who had
an interview with F. W.. Peters, assist-
are the second vice-president of the

Mr. Peters stated that it was the in-
tention of the company to have every-
thing of the most up-to-date and approved
type for the handling of stock.

The new stockyards are to occupy
the whole of the balance of the company’s
property adjoining their present. stock-
yards. : :

The President of the C. P. R., Con-
troller McArthur said, had informed Mr.
Peters that it was the company’s intention
to maintain the additional stockyards
irrespective of any stockyards proposition
which may be brought up, and in which
the company is anxious to join.

Controller McArthur stated. that the
company had already commenced to
make arrangements for the’ proposed
extention and improvement of their
stockyards. San

“There is no doubt,’ .he remarked,
“that the company realizes the magnitude
and the growing importance of the cattle

THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE

question, and is going to try to keep pace

with its development. It is the only

company carrying cattle east for export.”
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RECORD TIME IN ALASKA DOG RACE

The annual dog race for the champion-
ship of Alaska, 408 miles over snow trail
was won April 15, by Colonel Sir Charles
Ramsey’s team of Siberian wolf dogs
in 74 hours 14 minutes. Lord Fox Ram-
sey’s team of wolf. dogs was. second,
in 76 hours 9 minutes. Lord Ramsey,
a Scotch peer and nephew of Sir Charles,
drove his own team, which was the popular
favorite. Scotty Allen, winner’ of. last
year’s race and who drove Alaskan Mala-
mouts was third, in 76 hours 33 minutes.
Fifty thousand dollars changed hands on
the race. The time breaks all record for
dog travel. The course was from Nom:
to Candle and back. The plan to have
the race on the Behring sea ice was aband-

oned because of the roughness of the sur-

face.
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C. P.R. CROP REPORTS

_ Twenty-five per cent. of the seeding
is done in Manitoba; in Saskatchewan
twenty-seven per cent. is finished, and
in Alberta forty per cent. .
| This was the statement made by
Thomas §. Acheson, general agent for
the Canadian Pacific on ‘April 14, after
making a complete and most careful
compilation of the reports sent in by
two hundred agents’ of the company
in all parts of the west. :
Mr. Acheson called attention to the
report. made for the corresponding week
of last years which showed that on April

14. practically no seeding had been done.
In. Manitoba and Saskatchewan scarcely
a beginning had been made. At Edmon-

ton no seed whatever had been sown.

This year 40 per cent. of the crop acreage
is seeded there.

In the Medicine Hat section 25 per cent.
was seeded at this time last year. This
year 75 per cent. of the grain is in the
ground. At certain points in Manitoba
and Saskatchewan the seeding is practi-
cally complete. At Morden 90 per cent.
is done and at Winkler 80 per cent.

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EARTH TREMBLES VIOLENTLY IN
CENTRAL AMERICA

Many towns have been demolished,
the loss of life is heavy, and all Central
America has been shaken by earthquakes
of almost unprecedented violence, accord-
ing to latest reports.

It is believed that hundreds have
been killed in the interior of Costa Rica,
which has borne the brunt of the disaster.
The shocks continued for to dyas. The
extent of the property damaged can only
be surmised, but advises already in hand
give the assurance that it will be much
heavier than the $1,000,000 at first
estimated.

Despatches from San Jose, the capital
of Costa Rica, says that thousands of
persons refuse to return to their homes
and camps have been thrown up in the
open country about the city. The panic
is widespread. Meagre reports from out-
lying districts show that several villages
have been utterly destroyed. Frenzied
refugees are arriving hourly and bring
tales of terror and suffering.

EXECUTIVE TAKES ACTION

Officials of the Association Make Statement cf Their Attitude Towards
Matters Which Have Been Criticized
‘The Executive Committee of the Manitoba’ Grain Growers’. Association
held a meeting in Winnipeg on April 15th, at which were present: D. W. Me
Cuaig, J. W. Scallion, R. C. Henders, J. S. Wood, Peter Wright and R. Mc-

Kenzie.

After consideration of the minutes of the last meeting, the Secretary presented
a petition from the Salisbury Branch asking the C.P.R. to place a siding

mid-way between Arden and Neepawa.

The Secretary was instructed to for-

ward the petition to the proper authorities of the C.P.R. :

A lengthy discussion followed on the attitude the directors of the Manitoba
Grain Growers’ Association should take towards the distribution of harvest
help. The matter was left over for further discussion.

A communication from Henry Malpas in reference to the appealed. case.
of Malpas vs. Henry was read and the president was directed to confer with Mr.

Bonnar on the matter.

Regarding Mr. Kerr’s Remarks
The following resolution was carried unanimously by the members of the

Executive Committee:—

“That-we the executive of the Manitoba Grain Growers’ Association, at
a meeting held by us in Winnipeg on this 15th day of April, 1910, regard with
disapproval and regret statements made by F. W. Kerr, a director of the Manito-
ba Grain Growers’ Association, at a political meeting recently held at Nesbitt,
Manitoba, as tending to cast reflection upon and discredit in public estimation,
the action of the directors of the Association in connection with the Elevator
Bill recently passed by the Manitoba Legislature. ;

“We repudiate the statement, and deny the assertion that the directors
of the Grain Growers’ Association were influenced in their attitude toward that
Bill in the slightest manner by any political party considerations whatever, but
were wholly. intent upon securing such provisions in the Bill that they con-
sidered would be in the best interest of the Grain Growers of the province, and

promote the successful operation of the enterprise.

The directors pressed

for these provisions as long as there was any probability of obtaining them, but,
when the Bill passed the legislature and became law, recognizing the fact that
nearly ‘all legislative enactments are a compromise of conflicting interests, they
decided that it would be in the best interests of the Grain Growers of the pro-
vince to accept the Bill as passed, for the present, and do everything possible
to make its operation a success, and if changes were found necessary, amendments

should be pressed for later on. .

“During the eight years the Manitoba Grain Growers’ Association has been

in existence, party politics have been kept out of its deliberations,

Such matters

are not discussed at the meetings of the directors who belong to the different
political parties, and most of whom have been directing the work of the associa-
tion since its organization.’ The association recognizes the rights of its members,
to work with the political parties of their choice and try to influence their party

to legislate for their common interest.

“We utterly repudiate the statement and deny the assertion that the Grain
Growers’ Association is dominated by any organization or any interest outside

of itself.

We also deny, as having any foundation in fact that Tue Gratin

Growers’ Guipb,the official organ of the Grain Growers of the west, is dominated

by or used in the interests of any political party, firm or company.

Its policy,

use and purpose is to promote the interest and secure the up-lift of the farmers of

Western Canada.

We feel that an organ established for such a purpose is certain

to encounter the opposition of opposing interests, political and otherwise, but
we expect every true friend of the Grain Growers’ Association to stand by an
organization that has done so niuch for the farmers of this western country, and
is likely to accomplish a great deal more in that direc ion.”

A resolution was passed fiaing the salary to be paid toa regularly appointed

organizer.

\. R. McKENZIE, Secretary.

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BALFOUR DECLARES FOR FREE -
IMPORTATION OF COLONIAL °

rs

Replying to a letter from a Unionist
member of parliament, Hon. A.J. Balfour
says:

“Wheat grown within the limits of
the Empire should be imported free.
This policy will, I believe, commend itself
to the judgment of the British community
and will certainly be.received with favor
in the colonies.”

Mr. Balfour’s announcement is regarded
as likely to have an effect on the industrial
constituences at the next elections. The
free trade view, however, is that untaxed
colonial grain will not affect. the price of
bread as three-fifths of the grain is
imported from foreign exporters, who
would raise the price to-pay the, duty.
Colonial and British farmers would do
likewise to make extra profits, so the
statement will not prevent the cry of
a “little loaf.” ;

The Morning Post, the organ of the
advanced tariff reformers, determinedly
disagrees with the Unionist leader’s new
policy and hopes agricultural members’
candidates will stick to their guns in the
matter, of pledging themselves to fight,
when the time comes for fair play te
home agriculture. : é

Rt. Hon, Winston Churchill has re-
ceived a large sum for the purpose of his
free trade campaign and is arranging
for 2,500 special lectures during the next
twelve months by distinguished men,
including Lords Avebury and Brassey.

The Standard publishes views Biredne
tariff reformers, expressing great satis-~
faction at Balfour’s pronouncement.

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CURTATLING VETO POWER
OF HOUSE OF LORDS

Premier Asquith’s second resolution,
curtailing the veto power of the House
of Lords was carried April 14 by a vote of
851 to 246, a government majority of
105. Immediately after the division the
Hon. Walter Runciman, Minister of
Education, moved to adopt the third
reading of the premier’s third resolution,
which limits the life of each parliament to
five years.

There was a sharp clash between
Premier Asquith and Mr. Balfour, the
Unionist leader, when the premier was
interrupted by Mr. Balfour ‘rising to a
point of order in the debate... =~

An uproar followed, Unionists and
Liberals. cheering .and boohing their
respective champions or enemies. The
chairman at first refused to intervene,
but finally heeded the Unionist protest:
and ruled against the premier..

Mr. Asquith, in his speech, declared
that if the Lords rejected the goyern-
ment’s proposals he would immediately
tender advice to. the crown regarding
the steps to be taken if the government
policy is to be carried into effect. If
his advise is rejected, then he would
dissolve the house, taking steps to ensure
that at the next occasion the will of the
people, as expressed in the . election,
will be carried out. The only legislation
prior to the decision on this question will
be the budget.

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UNITED STATES TAKING THE
BUSINESS

During the past week, according to
freight brokers, charters have been made
for approximately three million bushels
of Canadian grain for shipment from
United States ports by way of Buffalo.

What this amount means is realized
when it is known that the stocks now
in elevators at Fort William. and. Port
Arthur amount.to 7,232,000 bushels. A
number, of United States boats are now
at. the head of the lakes loading, and
others have already cleared for Buffalo.

Although it is to the interest of the
Canadian vessel-owners to get cargoes
for Montreal, because of the longer
haul, they have secured very few charters.
Practically all the cargoes contracted
for Montreal :are to fill ocean vessel
space arranged for some time ago.

In the meantime, in spite of the pro-
tests of exporters and the apparent
danger of the Canadian port losing its
place as the grain shipping port, ocean
steamship companies have made no
move to bring the rates to the: ‘level

now ruling at New York. | __

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The recent reduction put into effect”

by lake steamship lines is alleged to be
the limit to which the inland companies
will cut ‘their rate,
a reduction of about two cents a bushel
is made over the price of a féw years
ago, when the tonnage running to Montreal
ago, when the tonnage running to

Montreal was not so heavy and facilities .

from the head of the lakes to New York
were not so complete. '

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WESTERN MEMBERS INSIST ON
CHILLED MEAT TRADE

Tell of Decline of Western Cattle
Industry *

In the House of Commons, April 18,
when the agricultural estimates were
being put through, several of the western
members indulged in plain talk in connec-
tion with the urgent necessity of a chilled
meat trade in the west.

The discussion in which the western
members
an appropriation of $57,000 for cold
storage, which immediately branched
off into the - desirability of government
aid being given to the chilled meat in-
dustry of Alberta and of the whole’ west.

W. H. White, of Victoria (Liberal)
also joined in, scoring Mr. Fisher for
his complete neglect in this regard and
stated in plain terms that the ranchers of
Alberta: would have to go out of business
if something was not done to-encourage
the chilled meat industry.’ There was
no reason why chilled meat could: not

be placed ‘on ‘the’ markets -of Europe:

in such a manner as to produce substantial
profits.

The minister stated that the proposal
was such a large enterprise that he could
not commit himself, but intimated that
it would be given further consideration:
As a matter of fact there has been a resolu-
tion on the order paper for some months
which has” shut off discussion on this
important industry.

Want Declaratoin

Mr. Meighen, in bringing forward
the matter, stated that despite the
resolution on the order which forestalled
discussion, the livestock and chilled meat
was so very important that the debate
ought to go far enough in order to get
some explicit statement of policy from
the minister of agriculture. While the
exportation of cattle and the facilities
for that exportation were matters that
first concerned cattlemen arid ranchers
throughout Western Canada, nevertheless
they had to’ do in just as important a
manner with the general farming industry.
of the whole of Canada. ©!

In Manitoba the cattle industry was
marching ‘very * rapidly to. extinction.
Where farmers had ten cattle ten years
ago they now had one. Cattle raising,
as an industry, was going out of existence
simply. because the farmers were unable:
to make it pay. Mr. Meighen outlined
the Palmer proposition for. a complete
system of cold storage barns, warehouses,
feed bins and abattoirs which had «been
submitted to the government by Mr.
Palmer.and which Mr. Fisher had rejected.
Mr. Meighen’ asked the reasons why
this scheme was refused or why any
plan was rejected which aimed at im‘
proving an industry which was all import-
ant toi the:-west. 0:02.55 if

Conditions in Alberta~

John. Heron pointed out similar con-
ditions in the province of Alberta and
told the minister that he had not looked
after’ western stock. raising interests.
In Alberta the industry was being’ forced-
to the wall and that province. was the
greatest of the western stock-raising areas.
Under proper conditions there was noth-
ing to prevent Alberta farmers froin ship-
ping meat from Alberta to the Old Coun-
try, which in a chilled state could be
landed in these markets in as good a
condition as if it were fresh beef. :

Experience had shown that distance
had hampered the profitable marketing
of the live cattle, at least from the stand-
point.of the farmer, and he thought that
in the whole matter ‘the minister of
agriculture and his department were not
taking the question seriously and falling
short: of doing. their: duty to the ‘country.

Must Raise Cattle

The further importance of the matter
was instanced by W. D. Staples, who
stated that it was impossible in a ‘grain
country to keep up’ the production of

ig without profitable cattle raising.”
n Manitoba, which was a gr in province,
given —

a greater amount of land had to be’

over to summer fallow every year.

~ Canada such. was not the - case.

With it in vogue “minister had taken the ground, although .

participated arose following’

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In eastern Canada the market for
cattle was largely. local, but in metnn
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not in the house, that there was not
sufficient proéduetion at present to warrant
any action, ‘but’ he wished to state the
wholé industry was being killed under
present’ conditions, ‘and charged the minis-
ter with not taking adequate precautions

in the line of fostering the second’ great .

industry of the west. —

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COLLEGE FARM

British Educationist Establishes a Unique
' Scheme in Alberta

Rev. H. B. Grey, principal of Bradford
College, England, who was chairman: of
one of the sections at the meeting of the
British Association in Winnipeg: last year,
was again in the city last Thursday. on
the way to Alberta. At the time of his
visit to Canada last year, Dr. Grey went
to Alberta and bought # large farm:: ~The
object was to provide an auxiliary to
Bradford College, where young. men who

~ GOVERNMENT STATISTICS OF
GRAIN IN. FARMERS HANDS

A bulletin from the census and statistics
office issued April 18 shows that at the
end of..March the quantity of wheat in
the farmers’ hands in the whole of Canada
was about 18.28 per cent. of the crop of
last year. This is. $0,484,000 out of

166,844,000 bushels, as compared. with
“20.23 per cent. -or 22,747,000 -bushels

out of, the harvest of 112,434,000-bushels
in 1908.

Of oats there was 40.03 per cent. or
141,199,000 out of 353,466,000 bushels, ‘as
against 43.62 per cent.,. or 109,222,000
out of 250,877,000- bushels last year.
Of barley there was 29.81 per cent., or
16,517,000 out of »55,398,000 bushels,
as against 33.56 per cent., or 15,692,000
out of 46,762,000 bushels. last: year. On
buckwheat there. was 1,835,000 out of
7,806,000 bushels, being 23.50: per :cent:,
against 29.03. per cent.,. or 2,078,000
bushels out. of 7,153,000 bushels last

_year., It is éstimated that 95.87 per

cent, of the wheat crop of ‘the Dominion
in 1909, equivalent to 159,868,000 bushels,
was of merchantable quality; of oats
90.86 per cent., being $21,190,000 bushels;
of barley, 92.87 per cent., being 51,449,000
bushels. ae . :

Crop in Farmers’ Hands

In, the provirices of. Manitoba, Sas-
katchewan. and Alberta the quantity

-of wheat on farms at March $1 was 18.90

per cent.; being 26,682,000 bushels out
of a total product of 147,482,000 bushels,
as against, 17,391,000. or 18.93 per cent.,
out of 91,858,000 bushels last year. Of
oats there was 45.44 per cent.,. being
84,254,000 out of 185,439,000. bushels,
as against 44,425,000 or 45.93 per ‘cent.
out of 96,718,000. bushels last year.
Of the total production of wheat in
the Northwest provinces. last: year, 96.48
per cent. was merchantable of oats,;
95.18 per~ cent.;-and of ~barley,~ 95.44
per cent. Manitoba shows the highest

‘percentage of merchantable wheat, oats

The above Picture shows the “William Henry Mack,” which was the First Grain Boat to Clear

at Fort William.

She left Fort William on April 11, nearly a Month Earlier than

Last Year; and Carries 190,000 bushels wheat for Export via Buffalo

had finished their course, and who’ wished
to come to. Canada, could learn of. the
conditions existing.in this country. .It
was also expected that the purchase
‘would prove remunerative purely as an
investment. : ; a

| Thursday Dr. Grey went west with his
first small party of farm students. .
were eight young men, all of whom will at
once go to work. on the. Alberta. farm.
As they desire they may go to work for
other farmers in the vicinity,. or they.
may buy land and settle down as independ-
ent producers.. The young men are. all
from country and yeoman _ families.
Their parents farm their own land or
own property and: are thus. interested
directly in’ agriculture. :

On the farm in Alberta diversified. .

operations will be carried on. Dr. Grey

expects to breed large numbers of ‘horses,
to raise cattle, grow wheat and all the .

cereal crops. .He will also have a small
dairy. © en ‘ ; ;
' Dr. Grey will spend some weeks on the
farm. learn Sve et
Om es

A despatch from. Fort Chippewyan
states that seventy-two deaths have
occurred north of that point.and at Fond
du Lac from starvation and dysentry, and

that “provisions “are riitning “very low.” “in the railway ‘committee at “Ottawa last ©

Flour is selling at $15 a bag.

There _

-and_ barley, being .98.83for wheat, 97.59

for oats, and 98.18 for barley. — .

The percentage of products of the farm
in .1910 which was of merchantable
quality ranks high for all crops in all
the provinces, the only exception being
potatoes in the Maritime _ provinces.

Live Stock of Dominion

Live stock. in the Dominion at. the
end of March wasuniformly high for
all classes of. farm animals, being 93.98
for horses, 91.42 for milch cows, 89.30
for, other cattle, 92.48. for sheep, and
92.77 for swine. aie

The correspondents report an early.
opening of spring in, all. parts of Canada,
and in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and. Al-
berta, as well as in the counties of Ontario,
along Lake Erie and Lake Ontario,
about one-half of the seeding was finished

‘at the end of March. A very favorable

account. of the condition of fall .wheat
is given for Ontario at the same period,
but in Alberta the crop suffered to some

.extent from drought at seeding season

and later. from winter exposure.
pba OOo.
Jomes Conmee’s bill to incorporate a
company to construct a canal from Lake
Superior to Lake Winnipeg was killed

week. The vote was 53 to 51.

April 20th, 1910. °°

LIVE STOCK COMMISSION ACTIVE

-The members of the live stock commis-

- sion, R. A. C.. Manning (chairman), A. M.

Campbell; and Stephen Benson, waited’
upon Premier. Roblin and. Hon. Hugh,
Armstrong ‘in the premier’s office last
week, and had a lengthy conference con-
cerning the progress already made in
the investigation of conditions with regard
to a combined public abbatoir and stock-
yards in Winnipeg or St. Boniface. ~The
commissioners and the: ministers declined
to make any statements concerning the
findings, which resulted from interviews
held, with the councils of the two cities
and with the representatives of the C:N:R.,
C.P:R.and G:T.P. railways some time ago:

For some time past St. Boniface ,has
been taking up the question of stockyards,
and,-as it is generally conceded that where
the stockyards are there must the abbatoir’
be also, it.is considered that St. Boniface
will'be the city to take the responsibility
of the large undertaking. It is the purpose
of the commissioners, however; to submit
a scheme which will be acceptable not
only to the cities:and the province, but
also to the railway companies and other
interests concerned. :

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EXPERIMENTAL FARM FOR: SAS.
KATCHEWAN

’ The Dominion Department of Agricul-
ture has secured land for the establishment
of an experimental farm at Scott, on the
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Hon.
Sydney Fisher announced on April 15
that the land had just been obtained.

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FARMERS ORGANIZE

The Farmers Co-operative Company,
Limited, is organizing branches through-
out the various. districts. surrounding
Regina. Last Friday a branch. was or-
ganized in South Regina school house
by A. R. Partridge, of Condie, a director
of the'central body and W. J. H. Traynor,
of Davidson, general manager. A similar
branch was organized by Mr. Partridge
at Tregarva on Saturday night. Farmers
attended this meeting in large numbers
and. several drove through a_ blinding
storm for several miles...

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CANADIAN WHEAT GOING SOUTH

A Gretna, Man., dispatch says: The
amount. of Manitoba wheat which is
crossing the boundary line at this point is
so large that it has begun to excite general
comment. :

No less than forty cars of Canadian
wheat comprised one train which went out
on the Great Northern this week, This
is the heaviest shipment which has every
crossed the line at Gretna... Heavy freights
both north and south on the Hill road are
now therule. |

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NEWS IN BRIEF

Henry. Pauls, a farmer of Bush Lake
district in Saskatchewan, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed.

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The Australian Labor party, headed by
former Premier Andrew. Fisher, was
victorious in the general elections in the
Commonwealth, defeating the Fusionists
headed by Premier Albert Deakin.

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Seven: men were’ killed, five fatally
injured and five are missing as the result
of an explosion and landslide on a railway
{n Bagotville, province ‘of Quebéc. “It is
believed ‘that the missing men have all
perished. ;

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The results of the annual exams, at the
Agricultural college are announced. K.
W. Gordon wins the Governor-General’s

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Sir Charles Rivers- Wilson declares that”
it will not be long before train ferries are
operating between Dover and Calais and
Folkstone and Bologne.

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The C.P.R. plans to expend a quarter
of a million dollars on its tracks between
Winnipeg and Fort. Willian this year for.’
the purpose of keeping down dust. :

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William D. Bell, a pioneer of Portage la
Prairie, was found dead on Saturday in ~
the bush at Island park. Death was due
to exposure. ; :

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Dr. Quintard, Mark Twain’s physician,
says that the humorist has been suffering
from angina pectoris and that he may live
five years or he may die at any time.

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The Canadian Northern Railway has.
announced a fast freight route from Port”.
Arthur to Bristol, England, via the great ©
lakes.

Wheat Prices Decline

Grain Growers’ Grain Company’s Orrice, Apri 18, 1910

Wheat.—Fluctuations during the past ten days have been rather of a violent nature,
the:market having declined from 105} to 1003, which was the low point today. On
the decline export demand has been very good. .The decline has brought about a
good deal of selling by people who were ‘‘bearish,” and has also caught a great many
of the small: holders: who were “long” the May option, by going into stop-loss orders.
This selling. has helped to depress the market probably 2 cents further than it should
have gone. However, as fast as we decline the Old Country seems.to back away from
our markets. _ Of course, we do not blame them for this as it is quite natural they
should want to get our wheat as cheaply as possible. ;

We do not look for a further ‘decline, but are looking for higher prices within the
next two or three weeks, especially if export demand continues. . World’s shipments
have’ been ‘exceedingly -heavy.. Russia has supplied more than double what she did
last year, and is taking the-place of the Argentine in exporting. Then, again, a de-
pressing influence has been the large Australian, and India crops. This is effecting
our July wheat as this grain comes on the Old Country market during June and July.
Our early spring has been another depressing element in our market from the specu-
lator’s standpoint, while we think ultimately it will have the opposite effect. However,
in the meantime it is helping to depress prices.

Stocks in store, Fort William and Port Arthur, are not as great as on this date last
year. The stocks-:in farmers’ hands we are given to ‘understand, are much larger.
If farmers should press their holdings on the market now after this decline, prices
might work considerably lower. However, if farmers hold their offerings and we get
-any crop-dainage reports, prices should easily advance. to their old level. Would not
advise sales except on extreme bulges, when sales can safely be made for a turn.

Oats.—This market has been remarkably steady. This is caused by the steady ex-
-port demand which we have had, and also. by farmers refusing to sell oats below 27
or 28 cents at country points.
stocks are much larger than last year, being about two million bushels greater, we do
not look for any further decline in this cereal., We are of the opinion that as soon
as importing countries have got some of our oats on the market and used them, we
will have much greater demand for our oats than we have had in the past. If we do,
the two million bushels extra will soon disappear.

We are.also given to understand that the farmers are holding large stocks of oats
in the country, but do not think the stocks in farmers’ hands are as great as reported,
and if the farmers refuse to sell at this price, we could easily have quite a good advance
in the market. ; °

Barley has been dull with absolutely no demand. ‘Not very much offering either,
but what has been offered has been almost unsaleable. ~ Sear

Flax has been higher and lower with the demand very spasmodic.
-high price and we do not look for any further advance in this grain.

It is a very

Liverpool Market Letter
By Henry Wiuuiams & Co., LiverPoon,.ApRIL.8,. 1910

During the week wheat “futures” have ruled easy with a declining: tendency
today’s prices showing a fall of 1}d. to 1jd. she : :

Cargoes of white wheat-from the Pacific coast of America 8d. to 6d. lower, Aus-
tralians 3d. lower, Indians 3d. lower, Russian and Danubian 6d. lower. Argentine
cargoes 3d. to 6d. lower; shipments this week to: Liverpool, nil; U.K. direct, 29,500:
continent, 101,000; orders 106,000; equalling 236,000 against 216,000 qrs. last week
and 338,000 last year. Latest cables report market rather firmer, arrivals fair, quality
poor. ‘ :

Russia reports.rather more favorable weather, but the rain on the whole is said
to be quite insufficient and the outlook is giving ‘rise to some anxiety. Holders are
firm and. have not followed the decline in cargoes afloat.

Roumania reports rainy weather, which has greatly benefited the seedings; the
crop. outlook is said to continue excellent. -Austria-Hungary reports heavy snowfalls,
but these appear to have been rather a.benefit than otherwise to the crops, and the
outlook remains good. Italy reports seeding almost finished; crop prospects remain
good; markets firm with a. better demand for foreign wheat. Spain: reports some

‘rain, but too late to benefit the crops. Germany reports dry cold weather and there
is some anxiety as the crops are very forward. France reports very cold ‘weather,
a good deal of snow and frost. Crop prospects appear to be only moderate. India
continues to report splendid crop outlook, though there are occasional complaints of
damage. Natives continue to hold firmly and business is difficult. Australia reports
nothing new.. Shipments are rather smaller and farmers continue to hold stiffly.
The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the U.K. has decreased 50,000 qrs. on the
week, whilst that for the continent has decreased 180,000 qrs.; the total for Europe is
now. 6,130,000 qrs. against 6,345,000 qrs. last year and 7,005,000 qrs. at the same time
in 1908. . : ;

Russian and Black Sea shipments.—Ports of call, 17,000 qrs.; U.K., 107,000;

France, 77,000; Germany, 92,000; Belgium, 24,000; Holland, 92,000: Italy, 142,000;

other countries, 85,000 qrs., equalling 636,000 last week, against 445,000 previous week.

Liverpool General Market Report
Corn Trape News, Arriu 5, 1910

Wheat cargoes are easier and there is less enquiry.

Australian wheat cargoes.—39/6 (approx. $1.184) asked for-13,000 qrs.. Victorian,
early February. This price also asked for 14,000 qrs. South Australian, March. Parceis
to Liverpoo: from three ports for March-Apri: are held at $8/6 (approx. $1.152). 39/-
(approx. $1.17) asked by shippers May-June.

Chilian wheat cargoes.—39/9 (approx. $1.19}) probably buys a steamer of 5,000
tons afloat. ie

Russian wheat cargoes are dull and easier. Azoff-Black Sea, April-May, offers
at 40/3 (approx. $1.202) to 41/9 (approx. $1.25}). Ae

River Plate wheat cargoes.—4,500 tons Rosafe, 60 lbs., shipping-shipped, offers
at 37/9 (approx. $1.18}). $8/44 (approx. $1.154) ‘asked for 4,500 tons Rosafe loading.
87/- (approx. $1.11) asked for parcels of Barusso to Liverpool, March-April. 37/74
(approx. $1.12}) asked for Rosafe, March-April. ‘37/9 (approx. $1.134) asked in Lon-
don for parcels of Burusso, 62% lbs. afloat, and 37/8 (approx: $1.11}) tor March-April.

-.~~.Canadian and U.S.A. wheat.—Parcels to Liverpool are quiet at 14d. to $d. decline.
Parcels to London are dull and easier. : Se Sale

THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDK

= Ss, PRODUCEMARKET

If the export demand continues for our oats, while our’

No. 1 Nor. Man.°~. . (pel. L'p’l.) ..March-April.......... a .., 89/1} approx. $1.17$

No, 2 Nor. Man. March-April... . 2.2... 2. 88/74 ee 1.15}
No. 3 Nor. Man. ... is sMay-Junels i. eo oes 1.4. 87/6 abe 1.124
No.1 Nor: Man. .;). (pel: idn:) ¢. Afloat oc oe 40/- " 1.20
No. 2 Nor. Man... rf eS DTUEMAY. | heara cies tae 88/103 “ 1.163
No. 8 Nor. Man... * BY 1G Aprils ce ut ri SP fesn ee 1.17
Indian wheat.—Parcels to Liverpool are quiet and the turn lower for new crop.
Choice White Kurrachee ........ June-July ........... 000. .7/8} approx. $1.11
No. 2-Club Calcutta 1.16 2-5

fate oe aa MARR DSA DEMOS awk at) 4 OLE md .

Indian Parcels to London are quiet.

Choice White Kurrachee ........ May-June ........... 88/74: approx. $1.15$
No. 2 Club Caleutta ..........- April-May... .......0.. Pa | Y) teeta 1.183

: eee SALES OF CARGOES FOR ORDERS ‘TO ARRIVE 4

Wepnespay, Marcx 30. nt ee ars :
9,500 tons South Aust. ..... .... Loading. ............. ‘..',.89/38° approx. $1,172

HuRSDAY, Marcu 31. ? ‘
12,500 qrs. New South Wales ....B/L 20-3.........00.00.000.. 39/3 approx. $1.173
SALES OF PARCELS
: ‘ (LiverPoo.)
« Wepnespay, Marcu 30. YEN Rees 3
2,000 qrs. No. 2 Nor. Man. .. March-April... ... ...'.', 88/103 approx. $1.163

Fripay, Apriu 1. 4
1,000 qrs. No. 1 Nor. Man. Wlarch-Aprihs ccc yije een 89/43 approx. $1.18}

Tuxspay, Apri. 5. ‘ nual
1,000 qrs. No. 2 Nor. Man. ..May-June ....... er ven e 37/104 approx. $1.13%

; ; (Lonpon)

Wepnespay, Marcu 30. i
1,000 No. 1 Nor. Man.’ ....:: April-May. ..........0.00. 39/6 :
1,000 qrs. No. 2 Nor. Man. ..... Atrived ss Sige ee aia pita Tak

Tuurspay, Marcu $1. ; :
1,000 qrs. No. 2 Nor. Man. ...., Afloat 89

Monpay, APRIL 4. M4 approx, $1,185
1,000 qrs. No. 1 Nor. Man. ..... AROGt: Oo Ck Cu aga 40/- :

Turspay, APRIL 5. i> SEBEOE. (41.8)
1,000 qrs. No. 2 Nor. Man. ..... POY nS nian: G Men cere te 38/7} approx. $1.15}

Winnipeg Futures

Following are the quotations on the Winnipeg Grain E i
week for wheat, oats and flax, sold for May delivery, n Hxchange during the past

DATE WHEAT OATS
Apabl@ nha shies aE ae
Aprile cece see ee aks 103 :
April lb. esecec. ray a rey 108
April 18 assists: . 101f
Applecross 1008
April doe ea eg 100}

Liverpool Spot Cash No. 2 Nor. wheat, ears .. ene OBE

Corn Trapr News, Apriv 5. He: ahr wlio 3 CE a a hen a a se 1.08}

“ecw a sat approx. $1.19 2-5 hes Ales Mie 4 oy sample ,.. ion
1 Nor. Man... .8/5 pd 1.21 4-5 Baile hiensd: Meme MAN® Mow IG ge .
2 Nor. Man. . 8/4 “e 1.20 aa one vista 1 car (nA herb hl laa na
3 Nor. -Man. . .8/3 te 1.18 4-5 Re oat ie PSS ea Ne te 1.08
Red Chilian ...8/2 1.17 2-5 No. 3 heat, can “1.074
Ch. Wh. Karachi No. 3 scaly DORR con BP Shea a sy 1.063
Cleaned term 8/- ° “ 1.16 No 3 we » part car, king heads 94
Ord. terms ..8/- ‘es 1.15 1-5 No 3 what Pear ae ys 1.08
2 Hard Winter 8/8 “4 LAB AG Oe eC cian 1.073
Barusso . .....8/4 i 1.20 No. 3 ee lcar pee Tage
Russian. ..... 8/5 ss Leip yes aoe Lear, f.o.b. ..... 1.05
Russian Hard .7/8} ‘“ 111 0,8 Wheat, Loar oe. oe 1.05}
aeaaetiter pe 8 siihewl PORN ithe § Mies: oy 07}
5 ejected wheat, 1 car, badly mixed 1.04
Sample Market Prices Rejected wheat, 1 car, fio.b, 2.0... 1,044
Cash Sales Minneapolis Sample Market ern nee rad car, bin burnt. .95
i me pal een No liniked wheat Lear it
No. 1 Hard wheat, lear ........, $1,123) No. 4 mixed wheat leak Co” A oat
No. 1 Hard wheat, lear ......... 1112 NG Dirum wheak Loar 904
No.1 Nor. wheat, Scars ......... Ld Noe Diran wheal Vea ic 88
No. 1 Nor. wheat, 4cars ......... 1.11 ‘No. 2 Durum wheat, 1 car, smitty (80
No. 1 Nor. wheat, 7cars ......... 1.114 No. 2 Durum wheat, 1 car. f 89
No. 1 Nor. wheat, Scars ....,..., 1.11% No, $Durum wheat, lear. 0 87
No. 1 Nor, wheat, 1 car, Minn. .... 1.10¢ 6.8 Durum:wheat, 8 cara. 864
No. 1 Nor. wheat, Minn. ......... 1.09% AND, {Velvet shall heated pape” 1.08
No. 1 Nor. wheat, 2cars ......... 1.108 Neh Velvet chat wheat 8 care. 1.07}
No. 1 Nor. wheat, 1 car, Minn +..-1.094 No. 1 Velvet chaff wheat, lear... 1.07
No. 1 Nor. wheat, Scars ......... 1.094 No. @ Velvet chalk wheat @ ours I fas
No.1 Nor. wheat, 1 car, Minn. .... 1.09 No. Bo Velvet “chalt wheat ioe
No. 1 Nor. wheat, 1 car, Minn. ..7) cael BEADEE Dedioncas 1.03]
No. 1 Nor. wheat, lear ..........; 1.10$° No.1 tied Liga Co Cae ee 2 45
No. 1 Nor. wheat, cars ......... ‘1,10 No.1 Has: 9500 bi towirives <2. wae
No. 1 Nor. wheat, Lear .......,.. 1.103 : uae ES Ana et :
; ve 1 Nor: Wheat, lear Eee ok Hg fot :

o. 1 Nor. wheat, 1,000 bu, toar, .. 1.09 “] ‘
No. 1 Nor. wheat, 4,000 bu. to ar. .. 1.09 The Weeks Grain Insp ection
No. 2 Nor. wheat, 1 car; Minn, .... 1.084 The following shows the cars of grain in-
No. 2 Nor. wheat, cars ......... 1.088 spected during the week ending April 14:
No. 2 Nor. wheat, Scars ....,.... 1.09 Spring Wheat
No. 2 Nor. wheat,'3 cars ..,.....5 1.08 : , 1910 1909
No. 2 Nor. wheat, 7 cars ......... 1.094 : oe _—
No. 2 Nor. wheat, 4cars ..,.....- oe bland oe aaa kes Lee is

I Norther co ccy aos oes $78 196

No: @ Nor. wheat, 2cars ......... 1.09

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@ Norther 5 sain ies 875 251
SNorthertiy cece cues 228 "271
No, 4) Se ee ane 51 112
Feed oc SON yee 10
Rejected No.1 .........45 82 58
Rejected No. 2.2... 0.54%. 31 59
INR BRAG ee aa 14- 18
Rejected eee 18 18
NO Beer. s eaebeneurnuaes 14 41
NOEG eo e ea ee 4 20
Gondemned 2.5276. (8 4 1
Total 8 cause ae 1145 1056
Winter Wheat
No. 2 Alberta Red ........ 9
No. 3 Alberta Red ........ 4
ING. RW ia are ae 1
NOS R White cote i es 1
No. 8 White. °ooocees can. 1
NO. DB Re Wee ce Oe aay 8
Total ears 19
Oats
Nog td Giwe cee des 21
Noe OsWe ois s.'. 160
Nos'8 CoWee nn ess 24
Meiected sc Sere 7
ING: BRAGG oe toc eich vais cs 2
Extra No. 1 feed.......... 15
Nad Beedle oi 4
NG: @ Feed i050. ee cis Q
Noi @ Mixed visas ay et 5
‘Condemned: |< 3.5. ee eo. 3
gi ila 1 a OR ae 241
Barley
Nan S:hixtra eos oe hess 1
NOP 8h Sh CHE EG 26
LEO” RECT PEMD ears tele POU OE rENE 18
Rejected i eae ese ee 4
OLA oi cya hea ue 49
Flax
No. 1 N.W. Manitoba .... 47
No. 1 Manitoba .......... a
PPOLAL ee koe cian ates 48
Grand total ............ 1503
Flour

During the past week there has been a
decline of from ten to fifteen cents all
round in flour prices.

The following are mill prices, per bag:

Oaittvie Frour Mitts Co,—
Royal Household.............0., $2.90
Maint Rovabs ec Cee ae 2.75
Glenora Patents ............0004. 2.60
Manitoba Strong Bakers.......... 2.30
Lake or tHE Woops Mituina Co.—
Bive Ropes ee eee eas os $3.00
UBMOWOON 5 es ae hee eee 2.85
Harvest. Queen .....0000 5000 2.65
BOOP eG See etek Sie oe wien ae 2.10
b.& a Cay eee er es aay can 1.60
Western Canapa Fitour Mitts Co.—
Pabity 7 Ss ee ay sae aa $2.95
MedAlHON Vacs sss bow aceees pens 2.80
Three Stara: 63. fib ek cae aces 2.65
Battle Patent ss 6s ees Pave cess 2.60
"Maitland Bakers... ...:......0-05 2.20
PUUTON eas Cea as oe aig a eae 2.05
MR Ges UVaurevind sepeeued s+ 1.50
Rolled Oats
Per 80 Ibs. Prices net
Ri BO-lbs sacks is ccd eae ig ones $1.75
Fn AO-Ibi sacks ee eee kes 1.80
In 20-lb. sacks........ Rear he ear 1.85
2.30

Feed

er ton:

PEN oe Oa cutee vane be ees 6 a anole $15.00
BUOMS ee EG Feo ee Ls ORS 16.00
‘ ‘ Cuoppep Freps
Barley, per ton, in sacks ........ $23.00
C0 1d Dim eO ROMS eis HD or Urs arcana 25.00
Barley and Oates 24.00

Stocks in Terminals

Total wheat in store, Fort William and
Port Arthur, on April 15, 1910, was
7,276,661 bushels, as against 7,232,483.40
bushels last week, and 7,670,571.30 last
year. Total. shipments for the week
were 587,564 bushels; last year 618,948.
Amount of each grade was: ;

1910 1909

No. 1 Hard ... 30,630.50 5,873.10
No. 1 Nor. ...2,147,588.50 1,121,609.20
No. 2 Nor. ...2,498,232.00 1,926,884.50
No. 3 Nor. .....1,366,724.30 1,727,740.20
NGea ices. . $67,331.30 989,538.00
Nov 6 6 000000..0° 72,074.40 > 651,695.10
Other grades .. 794,228.50 1,347,230.40

Totals ..... 7,276,661.10 7,670,571,30
na Stocks or Oats
‘No. 1 Extra .. SBTEIB Scotia bia

No. 1 wh. C.W... 525,554.07

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THE GRAIN GROWERS’ GUIDE.

No. 2 C.W. .. .4,198;888.09

No. 8 wh. C.W., 489,679.88. sessccssssses on
Mixed... 5,013.14

Other grades.., 807,873.17

Tot. this week 5,523,780.30
Tot. last week .5,665,751.82

Decrease...

41,971.02
Date eos 5. 5,528,780.00 8,3808,423.00
Barley........ ' $92,825.00 $87,745.00
Biex oe. es} 531,409.00 902,528.00
SHIPMENTS
Osten ee 211,596.00
Barley 2,252.00
Flax. oc) kis 44,661.00

Stockyard Receipts
The following gives the number of
cattle, hogs and‘ sheep received at the
C.P-R. stockyards during the week
ending April 16, and their disposition:

From C.P.R. points 731 982.11
From C.N.R. points 141 197
Potake, 872 1,179 11
Butchers east this week........ 266
Exporters east this week........ 18
OREN West ae es Gases 36
Butchers held over from last week
and delivered locally :.......... ie By
Butchers held over.......... Lceien PL
Consumed locally ¢......0.. 000... 541

Hides, Tallow and Wool

By McMitian Fur & Woou Company,
Aprib 19, 1910.

Green salted hides........... 9c. to 10c
Green hides ..........5...... 8e. to. 9c.
Green salted calf............. lle. to 18e.
Dry flint butcher hides. .......17c. to 18¢.
Dry rough and fallen hides 18c.
SEMOCH FOOG re vaio cine ie Sake eae oee iets 40c.
Woolies SEN eine 8c to Llc.

oo &
Dressed Poultry

Winnipeg retailers who purchase direct
from the producer quote the following
prices per pound, for dressed poultry,
dry plucked, and with the head and feet
off,

Chicken isis ica co anil wig atowebineyaiad 20c
OW ee eas ei a eed ve ceteara aye 18c
Turkeys ee eich cha by cyan aleciodce 20c.
Geese........ Halas ein Wado owl will oitie iaralet ars 16c.
Driichkaeois ee ie hes gaa as ba yaeiees 16c

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Dressed Meat

Prices paid by butchers for dressed hogs
has advanced slightly but other quotations
are the same as last: week. They are as

follows.

Hind quarter beef..........5....... 9c.
Forequarters... 0). ip 8s see eae oes Te.
Dressed hogs, 125-150 lbs............ 18c.
Dressed hogs, over 200 Ibs.......... lle.
Heavy: Veabeigis i ek bs eagle 8 to 9c
Small calf under 100 Ibs............ 8c.
Dressed lamb ...... 0.0. c epee eee 18c.
Dressed mutton... ise e cenwenien 10c.

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Butter and Eggs
Receipts of both butter and eggs have

fallen off considerably “during the past

week, with the result that there has been
a corresponding advance in prices. But-
ter is selling retail in the Winnipeg stores
at 40 cents a pound—that is. creamery
butter, which is “manufactured fresh
daily by the large dairy concerns, and
dairy butter of good quality is sold retail
at from two to four cents under that
price. At the present time the retailers
are paying farmers from 30 to 35 cents
a pound for dairy butter according to
quality.
EGGS

Because of the combination of con-

ditions caused by the sudden wintry

spell, the fact that many farmers have
been working on the land, and that the
big firms are pickling all the eggs they can
lay their hands upon the price of this

commodity has advanced to 18} cents,

which is the price offered farmers by the
retail dealers.

Potatoes

The stories of a potato shortage last
fall were apparently fictitious. At the
ink time the -market throughout
Western Canada ig glutted to such extent
that farmers find it almost impossible
to dispose of their stocks at any price.
A Manitoba producer tried every com-
mission house, every wholesale house,
and all the large retail butcher and grocery
stores in Winnipeg last week, but without
success. The best offer he could get was
from oné firm which offered to take
a car in &@ months time. The shortage
has not been caused from the fact. that
supplies were shipped in from Ontario
or the United States, and on the contrary

‘there seems to have been any quantity

‘of potatoes in store in Western Canada.
The stocks of potatoes wintered well
as the result of a mild winter, and the glut
is apparently due to this cause and to the
fact that many farmers have been holding
with the expectation of getting a long
price inthe spring. Quoted now at 25c.

Hogs $10 50. Cattle $6.00

Live stock prices are still soaring on
‘the Winnipeg market. Last week hogs

* touched: the record. figure. of .$10.50 per
ewt., and a shipment of 18 export steers -

were sold by Mr. Baird, M.P.P. at $6.50
per ewt. The total receipt of live stock
for the week were small, and there was
active bidding on. what. did come in.
These prices are higher than ever before
paid in Winnipeg, and there:is a probabi-
lity that the prices will hold firm, — al-
though this cannot be predicted to a cer-
tainty. .

Messrs. Bater & McLean furnish the
following prices:

April 19, 1910.
Cattle ett
Choice export steers ....$5.75 to $6.00
Good butcher steers .... 5.25 “ 5.70
Hipifers se Ce case eyes 5.25 “ 5:50
Good to choice bulls .... 4.25 “ 4.50
Choice calves ......... 4.25 “ 4.75
Medium calves......... 8.75 “© 4.25
Swine
Choice hogs eye 8 2 see ee $10.50
ROUBH SOWS iio epi ial g8 804 8 sense odes © 7.00
CEB ies os coer ee $4.50 to 5.00
Sheep
Choicelambs eis eee cis eas $7.50°
Local sheep ..3........5+ Seta ces 6.50

Chicago Live Stock
(Drovers’ Journal, April 15)
CATTLE PRICES”.

Number Extreme
received range
Aprilll...... 25,994 $5 :60 to $8.65
April 12°....... 2,227 5.65 “° 7.60
April 18 ...... 14,126 5.70 “ 8.50
April 14......- 5,310 5.75 © 8.40
April 15 ...... 1,500 5.80 “ 8.35
HOG PRICES
Mixed » Heavy
Packing Packing
Mediums and Selected
195-255 lbs. 255-400 lbs.

Apr. 8 .$10.20 to 10.55 $10.25 to 10.60

Apr. 9 . 10.35 “ 10.70 10.35 “ 10.70
Apr. 11 10.15 “ 10.60 10.15 “ 10.50
Apr.12 9.95 “ 10.85 9.95 “ 10.35
Apr.18 9.80 “ 10.15 9.80 “ 10.15
“Apr.14. 9.70 “ 10.05 9.70 “ 10.05
Apr.18 9.70“ 10.10 970.“ 10.17

QUOTATIONS IN STORE AT FORT WILLIAM FROM APRIL 13—19, INCLUSIVE

April 20th, 1910

Toronto Live Stock

A Toronto dispatch dated April 18,
says: ae ;

The feature of the commercial markets
here today was the live stock market,
where there was a great demand for
butchers” cattle, which sold at 7 to. 74
cents per pound, an extraordinary price.
Cattle dealers here say today was one of
the busiest in the history of the Toronto
cattle market.

Liverpool Live Stock

Aprit 18

John Rogers & Co. report today that
the Birkenhead market was very dear, *
only one ‘boat landing cattle. There
were no really choice cattle on the
market, quotations ruling as follows:
States te er ee ee ae ..144 to Tbe.

Canadians. 635i se jie eb 144 to ldc.

SCRUB POULTRY.

_ At the present time we hear a great
deal about the scrub dairy cow, and how
to find her out.. We are told to get rid
of her for she is only a burden on our
hands. Very few of us ever hear of the
scrub hen; and fewer of us are well aware
that there is a method: of finding. out
which one she is, and how to get rid of
her... In the first place what is a scrub
fowl? That all depends upon what the

chen is being bred for. In the fancier’s

case a scrub hen is one that does not come
up to the standard as set by the breeders
in the way of color, size and type of breed.
Then there are others who breed for uti-
lity hens. To this class of breeders a
hen that does not lay or is not a good
meat fowl is a scrub. These latter men
use the trap nest to find out which one
lays the most eggs, and in this way learn
which ones to ‘‘send to the butcher.”

Many farmers are apt to think that the
poultry fancier has no place in the
poultry world. Few know that if. it
were not for these men the present type
of poultry would so deteriorate that they
would be useless. It is these men who
keep the breeds pure and keep poultry |
up to its present standard. We .should.
all work together and eliminate the scrub
from our flocks. It does ‘not matter

“whether the scrub is a poor looker or a

poor worker, she should go. Let hen go.

SHEEP THRIVE IN MANITOBA

Among the speakers in the lecture hall
at Brandon during the recent winter fair
was Mr. Todd, of Hillsview. Discussing
sheep-raising he spoke as follows:

“J find.that sheep thrive as well.in
Manitoba as anywhere else. There is
no serious drawback to the keeping of
sheep in a thrifty condition, even in large
numbers, in almost all. portions of the
province.. High, dry ground can be found.
almost anywhere, and the: grasses are
generally. good. Spear. grass which, in
the early days worked some havoc amongst
sheep can be easily kept so low from
pasturing, that it never heads out. , The
matter of fencing now affords no longer
any obstruction to «sheep-raising, «far,
where only a few sheep are kept, they will
remain. near the buildings, and if large
numbers are kept, the slight.cost of fencing
will pay. Wolves have given me very
little trouble. During . twenty-eight
years’ residence in Manitoba, my. losses
from wolves have not amounted to fixe
head of either sheep or lambs.. A few
sheep are a factor of economy on any farm,
and larger. flocks can. be. profitably kept,
especially of the pure breeds.’

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